European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 21, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                A Scarletto Means a gone with the wind never left a file the Book gone with the wind ballooned into a Mega movie with Vivien Leigh and Clark  Jocelyn Mcclurg the Hartford courant Carlett Ashley Rhett and the grand old South arc about to Rise again. On sept. 25, Warner books will ship half a million copies of Alexandra Ripley a Scarlett the sequel to Margaret Mitchells a gone with the wind Quot to stores around the country. If you want to know what happens in the sequel done task Warner books. But Ripley while under a a orders not to reveal anything about the plot will happily Tell you enough to whet your appetite. Ripley was in new York for the american booksellers association convention in Early june where Warner threw her a party. She gave no news conferences but took time to Chat amiably about her sequel to the most famous Southern civil War novel Ever written. A gone with the wind has somewhere around 1,037 pages and what i tried to do is Start on Page 1,038,�?� Ripley said. Ripley a South Carolina native who was chosen by the Mitchell estate to write the sequel is the author of such Southern historical fiction As Charleston and new Orleans legacy. Warner paid $4.94 million for the rights to the sequel in 1988, but Ripley a fee has not been made Public. Ripley Analysed gone with the wind s text and Mitchells style before picking up a pen. While she wrote she said she kept in mind a those people who really love gone with the wind. There Are Many and i am one of  Ripley a analysis revealed that Rhett is in Only about 25 percent of the novel which was published in 1936. A of course we think about the movie where Clark Gable is there All the time a she said. Vivien Leigh a definitive Scarlett of Hara is Given a nod on the dust jacket to Ripley a sequel which features a drawing resembling Leigh. When last we left Scarlett carpetbaggers ruled the South Rhett did no to give a Damn and our Headstrong heroine was vowing to think about it All tomorrow at Tara. Here a a sneak preview from Ripley of what comes next. A Scarlett a grows up some a she gets a Little older she gets a Little  not a Little nicer we Hope. A fall sorts of things happen to her. Its a Page  a while the Scarlott Rhett Butler Ashley Wilkes Triangle is still important there is a roster of a dishy new men and other new characters. A Why should i limit myself to Margaret Mitchells hand me Downs a Ripley asked. A Ripley would not say whether the books locale changes but she promised it is a a very Southern  Scarlett the sequel to Margaret Mitchell s Quot gone with the wind Quot is on order at stars and stripes bookstores. It will Cost $15.95. I authors bound with volumes of fan Atic request by Lisa see los Angeles times on Sidney Sheldon a recent tour to Brazil and Argentina 7,000 desperate fans a having clambered aboard buses and travelled great Dusty distances a mobbed their idol for copies of memories of Midnight. Last fall at a Book signing for Anne Rice hundreds of people a some dressed As mummies or vampires a wended their Way in switch Back lines throughout the store for close to four hours. Crazed mothers have grabbed baby guru or. T. Barry Brazelton by the tie. Coattails Belt and shoestrings to keep him from leaving author appearances. A a it a gotten so bad a he says a that i sit in smoking sections so i done to get a baby dumped in my  most writers cherish their Solitude. But after months sometimes years the ordinarily reclusive author must leave the word processor and venture into the world to sell his Book to what he Hopes will be an eager Public. Authors on tour Rush to catch planes dash from to to radio stations squeeze in stops at bookstores. Sometimes they sell books sometimes they done to. In encapsulated encounters a both prosaic and bizarre a the writer meets his or her fans. Some fans burst into tears. Some feel the need to dictate to authors what they should write. Erma Bombeck once inscribed a Book to a total stranger a to my absolute Dearest Friend who is going to replace me  some aficionados arrive at Book signings with armload of first editions wrapped in protective plastic jackets and Pepper their writers with arcane questions. Then there Are the armchair critics. Mystery novelist Tony Hillerman bemoans the fans who show up a with the express purpose of telling you there s a mistake on Page 244.&Quot often devotees discuss the author while they re standing in line As if the author weren to there. Jean Aucul has heard people argue about which of her books is the Best which is the worst. Fans have brought horror writer Clive Barker Many a morbid gift including videotapes of Henry portrait of a serial killer a a a sculpture made from a decomposed Squirrel and styrofoam and a pin with the words a i wonder what your head would look like on a stick printed on it. On Rosc Annc Barros Book tour people brought her pizzas chocolates and ice Cream. There a More to sign than just books. Jackie col Lins has signed male chests. Brazelton has been asked to sign diapers he refused. A the strangest is when women ask me to sign their undergarments a said horror writer Dean Koontz who politely declines. Rice has signed leather jackets a pack of cigarettes and to shirts As Well As skulls and Vampire Teeth. Barker has scrawled his Moniker across miniature coffins and once had a Man come up Sli open his Arm and ask the author to sign his name in blood. Barker complied. Writers try to Rise to these occasions. Maya Angelou signs her books Quot Joy a with an oversized  Sam Donaldson signs a Ronald Reagan made me the person i am today.Page 8 a sunday july 21, 1991