Dead Famous (novel) belongs to an amateur dramatics society that is starting rehearsals for a performance of Macbeth, one of Coleridge's favourite plays. He desperately wishes to play the lead, but the director wants someone younger to play the lead part. Coleridge's success in solving the murder wins him the part. The idea of Banquo's ghost is Coleridge's method of forcing a confession out of the murderer. The novel is dedicated to the contestants of the first Big Brother series in the UK, the second Big Brother series in the UK and the first Big Brother series in Australia. The book parodies the
Famous Writers School As of October 2009, a group in Wilton, Connecticut, calling itself the Famous Writers School still exists, selling a course and set of books identical to those of the original Famous Writers School. In the early 1970s the "National Lampoon" published a parody of the Famous Writers School teaching material. Written by Michael O'Donoghue, it was titled "How to Write Good", with a real quote at the beginning from Eliot Foster, Director of Admissions, Famous Writers School. A novel by Steven Carter entitled "Famous Writers School" was published in 2006. It dealt with a man who runs a correspondence course