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Ever wonder who writes all those novels based on movies or television shows?

At the L.A. Times this weekend, Tod Goldberg wrote an ode to the fine art of tie-in writing. Check it out: "My brother had long regaled me with the sales numbers he'd racked up with his "Diagnosis Murder" and "Monk" books -- each selling roughly what all of my books have sold, combined -- and how his tie-ins had dragged along his other books too." (Link via Ron Hogan)

The Publishing Spot has been on this beat for years. Novelist Christa Faust stopped by awhile back, and taught us How To Find Work Writing Tie-Ins.

Follow these links for more tie-in action. After that, Faust also explained how she Novel-ized Snakes on a Plane

and How To Sell Wild and Crazy Novel

and How Blogging Helps Novelists

and finally, some Hardboiled Links from a Hardboiled Writer.