Clearly, the best way to keep a secret is to announce it on the internet!

Whenver we have these guessing games we always seem to have this trend where some people think the best way to find the answer is to ignore the clues.

I have a strong feeling that JB will announce this title on 04/01/05. :-)

Joe Hollon wrote: Andrew, JB said he was ghost-writing a DC title. I took his post above (from which you quoted) to be pointing out things people have incorrectly made up about the whole ordeal. I don't think they were clues....Maybe I'm completely lost.

So did I. I think you misunderstood my post. I was pointing out how when JB says once thing eg ("A DC Title") somebody will always ignore it and suggest something else. We had a lot of this with the Doom Patrol guessing Game. JB would say something like "It's a team book" and somebody would guess "Batman".

Joe Hollon wrote: JB said he was ghost-writing a DC title.

Er...um, no he didn't.  He said he was writing under a pen-name.  Not Ghostwriting.

I thought 'ghostwriter' and 'pen name' were the same thing. Can someone edit the thread title to stop some of the confusion?

Joe Zhang wrote: I think a ghostwriter is like a sub-contractor who stays anonymous doesn't get any of the credit.

Exactly.  If I publish my first novel as Edward Stark (shouldn't be too much of a stretch to figure out how I came up with that), that's a pen name.  If JB asks me to write part of his latest novel, but my name doesn't appear anywhere on the work (pen name or real name) then I'm ghostwriting.

My first guess is Powerpuff Girls, but...

Si Spencer looks like a fake name "Suspenser?" and JB has said that DC has given him free reign to deal with the magic characters of the DC Universe. At the time, it looked like he was talking about bringing them into Blood of the Demon, but Books of Magic would be another place to do it. And Books of Magic: Life During Wartime is a sort-of reboot...

Ron Farrell wrote: Just to help clarify the difference: ghost writers are frequently used by people who wish to write their "autobiography" but are incapable of actually writing a book, such as a hot athlete or actor. They are not credited on the book.

Nowadays a Ghost written book will often be credited like this:

by   John Smith

                        With

                       Barry Jones

Or even : by  John Smith

                                         as told to Barry Jones

John Byrne wrote: Less that 24 hours later,…

Didn't you start a thread about people using "that" when they mean "than" just a week or so ago?

As a matter of fact, I didn't. The only time I call attention to typos is if I find them humorous. The thread you are remembering incorrectly was about the improper using of "then" for "than".