Confession
time: Castle is one of my favorite shows. Or was. Following eight seasons the final episode aired recently. In the
future I must satisfy my detective obsession with reruns.
The
show is fiction.
Richard
Castle is a fictional character: a mystery novel writer.
Straightforward
enough.
But
things quickly get confusing.
Visit
Amazon or walk into your nearest bookstore and a novel – a real book - written by Richard Castle can be purchased. The
writer of these novels is not the Richard Castle seen on TV.
The
actor portraying the character Richard Castle is Nathan Fillion. The real
novels – real because they are actual books – are written by another person
using the pseudonym Richard Castle.
So
there is:
Richard
Castle - fictional character,
Nathan
Fillion - actor portraying Richard Castle on TV and elsewhere, and
Unknown
writer or writers – author(s) of books using Richard Castle pseudonym.
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The actor Nathan Fillion |
The
actor Nathan Fillion appears as Richard Castle on the novel’s book jackets. He
is pictured on the official website. He participates in book signings - genuine
book signings, not faux ones portrayed on the TV series.
Who
writes the books? No idea. No one knows. I researched the question but came up
empty and will not speculate because everyone has a different theory.
Richard
Castle’s first faux mystery Heat Wave was
published as a hardcover book in 2009. The book debuted at # 26 on the New York Times Best Seller List and
eventually moved up to # 6. There are two series of books attributed to the
writer Richard Castle: Derrick Storm novels and Nikki Heat mysteries, as well
as a number of graphic novels.
Perplexed?
I certainly am.
I
have not purchased any Richard Castle books or borrowed Richard Castle books
from the library or downloaded a Richard Castle book on Kindle. I do not plan
on reading any of the mysteries. My bookshelf already overflows with tomes
awaiting my eager hands.
Summarizing: A TV character transforms
into a real author writing books first introduced on the fictional TV show. The actor, employing his character's guise, is pictured on the books’ jackets and does book signings and other
book promotions. No one knows who writes the books. The author remains
anonymous.
The
world gets more confusing every day…
Oh how funny. I think I would like the tv series.
ReplyDeleteI just looked on Netflix and Amazon to see if it's available to stream, but apparently not. :-(
ReplyDeleteOkay, I'm confused. Anyway, I've seen a few of the shows, but in our house B is the real Castle fan.
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