User talk:Mcfrandy

Preview articles

A very minor comment: I have noted that you have made a huge amount of minor editions on many of your articles, not seldom within a few minutes. It is laudable that you make all these improvements, but I would like to ecourage you to use the preview function and correct as much as possible before you save the article. A shorter list of edits makes it easier to get an overview of the article's history page. Personally, I sometimes write my contributions in a separate document over a few days, before I paste them into the articles. --Jonund (talk) 23:03, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Main Page appearance

Hello! This is a note to let the main editors of the article List of James Bond novels and short stories know that it will be appearing as the main page featured list on April 15. 2013. You can view the TFL blurb at Wikipedia:Today's featured list/April 15, 2013. If you think it is necessary to change the main date, you can request it with the featured list directors The Rambling Man (talk · contribs), Dabomb87 (talk · contribs) or Giants2008 (talk · contribs), or at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured list. If the previous blurb needs tweaking, you might change it—following the instructions of the suggested formatting. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page so Wikipedia doesn't look bad. Thanks! Tbhotch.^™ Grammatically incorrect? Correct it! See terms and conditions. 01:41, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

The first of the James Bond novels and short stories was published in April 1953. The central character, James Bond, is a British Secret Service agent; he was created by journalist and author Ian Fleming and first appeared in the novel Casino Royale. The books are set in a contemporary period, between May 1951 and February 1964. Fleming went on to write a total of twelve novels and two collections of short stories. Since Fleming's death in 1964, a number of other authors have written continuation works. The first of these was Kingsley Amis, writing under the pseudonym of "Robert Markham", who produced one novel. John Pearson then wrote a fictional biography of Bond in 1973 before Christopher Wood wrote two novelizations later that decade. John Gardner wrote fourteen novels and two novelizations between 1981 and 1996. After he retired, Raymond Benson wrote six Bond novels, three novelizations and three short stories between 1996 and 2002. After a hiatus of six years, Sebastian Faulks wrote a further novel, which was released on the 100th anniversary of Fleming's birth. This was followed in 2011 by a novel by Jeffery Deaver.

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