Beyond the Book
Did you know? (continued)
- Handler started writing the Lemony Snicket books after he published his first novel The Basic Eight. The suggestion came from Susan Rich, a children's book editor who now works at Harper Collins. Initially he thought it a terrible idea thinking that the sort of things he would come up with would be totally inappropriate for a children's publishing house, but then he had an idea - which she liked, and the rest is history.
- His pseudonym came about while researching The Basic Eight, when he needed to contact right-wing organizations to get pamphlets and learn their dogma but didn't want to use his real name. It quickly took on a life of its own and became an...













