Soap tie-in books

[catsmeouch]

How many can you name? Not coffee table books like A Tour Through Salem, but fictional (or non-fictional) books attributed to or featuring fictional soaps characters.

-Hidden Passions: Secrets from the Diary of Tabitha Lenox, by Tabitha Lenox

-The Killing Club, by Marcie Walsh and Michael Malone

-Having It All, by Erica Kane

[DRW50]

Beth and Jonathan from GL both had books.

Katie from ATWT wrote a book.

Robin's Diary, which was published as the GH Stone story was ending.

[Mr. Vixen]

There's always CHARM! by Kendall Hart!

[Jonathan]

Way, way back in the day, All My Children had books focusing on some of their characters. There's a Tara and Phil book that I have. I don't know the name.

[DeeeDee]

Y&R Leanna, Nina, Cole, Katherine, Lorie & Traci

[DRW50]

There were also summaries of stories for soaps like GL and AW, with titles like "So Tender, So True." I think I have one that focused on Mike Bauer's romance with poor Julie Conrad.

[catsmeouch]

What are these books named? Are they on Amazon?

(When I say "tie in books", I mean you can actually go out and buy them)

[DRW50]

In 1984, Felicia Gallant "wrote" a book called Dreamweaver, with Rebecca Flanders.

This wasn't a real book, unfortunately, but one of Y&R's infamous stories in their first decade was Lorie Brooks book about the burden of being in "My Sister's Shadow."

[EricMontreal22]

Yes, I have the AMC ones form there--they're basically romance novel versions of the stories (I have a OLTL one too which advertises ones for Y&R, DAYS, Knots Landing and others in it).

There's Patrick Thornheart's Journal as well.

[Mr. Vixen]

Is the "Robins Diary" one still available? I wouldn't mind reading that, because I liked the Stone/Robin era.

[Paul Raven]

Years ago(late 60's) there was a Secret Storm tie in novel called 'The Unseen'

'A visit by a friend from the past sweeps the Ames family into a sea of love,fear and disaster'

I remember reading that this was actually the basis for a proposed spinoff that never happened.

Hasn't Ken Corday just signed a deal for some DOOL books?

[DRW50]

SoapBoy94

There are quite a few copies on Amazon.

Serial Drama talks about the book.

http://serialdrama.typepad.com/serial_drama/2009/01/vintage-suds-the-robins-diary-book-club.html

http://serialdrama.typepad.com/serial_drama/2009/01/the-robins-diary-book-club.html

[Mr. Vixen]

Thank you very much!

I think I might buy one soon...

Thanks for the links too

[DRW50]

HV Kershaw wrote a number of Coronation Street novelizations in the 60s and 70s. Here's one, with the wonderful title Elsie Tanner Fights Back.

http://backonstreet.blogspot.com/2008/12/in-search-of-mr-papagopolous.html

For other "secret diaries" - Bianca and Tiffany each had one on Eastenders. Mandy Dingle had one on Emmerdale.

Hollyoaks had a number of original novels on various topics, like Debbie Dean and Steph Dean in London trying to become stars, or Hannah, Nancy, and Sarah in Paris.

[EricMontreal22]

Yeah most of these can be bought for next to nothing on amazon marketplace. I got Patrick's Journal for a penny (plus S&H lol) but it didn't have the casette tape of him reading his poetry LOL (I didn'tcare I just wanted it for my OLTL collection). I got Killing Club and Charm and Having it All for about the same. (I actually read them all--read Charm in about 3 hours--it's AWFUL, like really really abd romance fiction. Killing Club is surprisingly very good, much better than the storyline based on it--but i guess that's to be expected since Malone wrote it and he's an award winning mystery novelist--I lent it tomy brother who loves murde rmysteries and has never watched a soap, after and he liked it too).