Donald Mccaig, border collie trainer and author;
A simple sequel, said Mccaig, would be dull
and lack tension(which might have been the problem with Scarlett).
Dellon tracked down Mccaig and asked if he would be interested in writing
a sequel to Gone With the Wind.
You take the Civil War out of it and have the epic love story,
and everything else is kind of‘Oh dear,'” Mccaig told the New York Times.
It nearly sold out its first print run of a million copies, again less than Scarlett
numbers, but enough that the Mitchell estate and St. Martin's Press asked Mccaig to write another entry in the Gone With the Wind saga.
Mccaig turned in chapters to St. Martin's as he finished them, which
were then individually reviewed by the Mitchell estate's lawyers- a mutually agreed-upon arrangement to prevent them from rejecting(or hating) the full manuscript after the fact, as had happened with Scarlett and Tara.