1.   Some authors get very touchy if you make even the slightest alteration to their work.

2.   And that, of course, means a publisher can make more money and an author may get a better advance.

3.   As authors get more popular, their advances go up.

4.   Authors get wide appreciation in Usenet groups, which makes sense.

5.   Authors today can get as drunk as they want, as long as they save copies of their masterworks to floppies or CD-ROMs or Zip disks first.

6.   But it is unusual to see so many untested authors get a shot at the Great White Way, particularly given the cost of mounting a Broadway show.

7.   By the time the author gets to Dr. Greene enfolding Charlotte in her arms, we want to remain with the doctor as much as Charlotte does.

8.   If an author ever gets him to tell all in a book, that person has my support for the Pulitzer Prize.

9.   Mid-list authors like him get lost at big houses, he explains.

10.   Moreover, few authors get any book tour, let alone a tour with huge posters and in-store displays.