Tweet LON CHANEY IN HIS OWN WORDS

Just published, a new book, that pulls together 1917-1930 interviews with 'the man of a thousand faces' (what he had to say about his life, career, and films)... also nearly 50 studio and professional photos, many of which run full-size in this 8x10 inch paperback.
https://www.amazon.com/Lon-Chaney-His-O ... +own+words

Do you go to archives and search out primary evidence, or are all these books created from merely gleaning the internet?

Just published, a new book, that pulls together 1917-1930 interviews with 'the man of a thousand faces' (what he had to say about his life, career, and films)... also nearly 50 studio and professional photos, many of which run full-size in this 8x10 inch paperback.
https://www.amazon.com/Lon-Chaney-His-O ... +own+words" target="_blank

Awesome work. Congratulations.

Do you go to archives and search out primary evidence, or are all these books created from merely gleaning the internet?

He didn't respond to your question. Having bought three or four of this guy's books, including the Chaney, I can answer that all he does is scalp quotations from records on the Internet such as contemporary movie magazines. There's never more than about 70 pages -- most of his books have only 25 or 50 pages of "biography" and "quotes", followed by maybe 15-20 pages of photos or program/poster reprints, and usually a filmography.

These books are useless as references because he doesn't provide sources for any of his quotations, nor does he provide a bibliography. In his Billy Dooley book, he occasionally identifies the magazine he's cribbing from, but never the issue number, date, page number, reporter's name, etc.

The Chaney book is even worse. It consists almost entirely of direct quotations from Chaney interviews, not a single one of them with attributes, and not even set apart from each other so you could at least figure out where one interview ends and another one begins.

No wonder he claims to have written over 200 books. Scalping quotes and slapping them together into less than 50 pages of large print without bothering to provide a single attribution is just about the easiest way to present yourself as a prolific "author".

Jim

Sounds like he's nothing but a HACK.

Sadly there are a few of these wanna-be writers that "borrow" from others hard work and cut & paste stuff, claiming it is their hard work.

Sounds like he's a self-published, not to mention being self-promoting, HACK. I'd like to see if he lifted things from my books without citing them. My lawyer would be interested also....