Someone at Simon & Schuster's Gallery imprint thought that reality TV show star Snooki would draw enough interest to justify putting her name on a ghost-written novel.
Someone at Simon & Schuster paid the young lady an advance to use her name, fully expecting to recoup the cost and turn a profit.
You slave away with your manuscript, sweating over the exact right word, and all you really need do is be outrageous. Act in a way that would embarrass your family and you've got all you need to get a publishing contract.
Who is going to buy this book? Probably those who are curious about the product, about what a person who claims to have only read one or two books in her short lifetime could write.
Most of us know Snooki didn't write a thing. A ghostwriter was hired to put together a novel, given the plot and characters and a rough outline and set out to go for it.
Fans of the reality show are expected to support Simon & Schuster's effort. The authors fortunate enough to have existing contracts with puny advances and decent sales will then be expected to produce, to cover the losses when Snooki's roman a clef fails to sell enough, but it won't be a huge burden.
Ghostwriters come cheap and spokes-celebrities aren't all that expensive when they're B- or C-list caliber. Simon & Schuster can bank on plenty of free publicity, in the way of general horror that such a respected publishing house would crank out such drivel.
Meantime, they're busy re-writing history by censoring Mark Twain.
Who is going to buy this book? Probably those who are curious about the product, about what a person who claims to have only read one or two books in her short lifetime could write.
Most of us know Snooki didn't write a thing. A ghostwriter was hired to put together a novel, given the plot and characters and a rough outline and set out to go for it.
Fans of the reality show are expected to support Simon & Schuster's effort. The authors fortunate enough to have existing contracts with puny advances and decent sales will then be expected to produce, to cover the losses when Snooki's roman a clef fails to sell enough, but it won't be a huge burden.
Ghostwriters come cheap and spokes-celebrities aren't all that expensive when they're B- or C-list caliber. Simon & Schuster can bank on plenty of free publicity, in the way of general horror that such a respected publishing house would crank out such drivel.
Meantime, they're busy re-writing history by censoring Mark Twain.
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