‘Ever After’ Credit II

Last Sunday, you printed the following letter from Rick Parks: “I appreciate the fact that Susannah Grant has a very good agent and obviously an even better publicist, but I’d like to offer a free copy of her final draft to anyone who believes she wrote ‘Ever After.’ ” Your response was to list the writing credit, which is shared by me, Mr. Parks and Andy Tennant.

The obvious implication is that I claimed, somewhere in the April 2 article to which he was referring, to have written “Ever After” by myself. However, had you reread the article before deciding to print Mr. Parks’ letter, you might have noticed that at no point did I make any such claim.

Never having met Mr. Parks, I can neither imagine what prompted him to launch his invective at me nor expect him to treat me more evenhandedly. I can, however, expect The Times, when it receives a letter like Mr. Parks’, to make sure that its substance is, in fact, relevant before printing it.

I’m proud of my contributions to “Ever After” and remain, as always, delighted by the very substantial changes to the script that were made by Mr. Parks and Mr. Tennant.

SUSANNAH GRANT

Santa Monica