YAY OR NAY WEDNESDAY

Star_1 Well it seems we got your attention last week, the majority of you enjoyed raunchy scenes providing they're well written, and not gratuitous. This week we're going to stick with the idea of a theme, but we're turning our attention to the authors. More specifically to celebrity authors - with the current trend of famous people being given contracts to write books (Katie Price, Nicole Richie, Pamela Anderson for a few examples) I want to know what you think about it.

Do you think its right that these writers get contracts purely because of the fame? You know what do, just comment Yay or Nay, and Why?

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YAY OR NAY WEDNESDAY - Comments

  • This reminds me of when I heard Jodie Marsh on the radio (she actually said this it isn&#39t made up!) saying that she wrote 90,000 words of her autobiography in a week. Erm hello, that&#39s over 10,000 words a day! Now if she&#39d said she spoke 10,000 words a day into a dictaphone I might have believed her, but this just makes her look stupid. So, er, after that long ramble, it&#39s a NAY from me!

  • ooh, well said Victoria! :) (and you Keris ;)) x

  • Um, what they all said .. (Keris, who got here late!)

  • Victoria

    The amount the ghost writer gets paid is pretty negligible, considering the sizeable deals celebrities negotiate and the deadlines that these books are normally written under. I don&#39t mind ghost written autobiographies so much - after all, what the celebs are selling there is just themselves and their carryings-on (zzzz). It&#39s more irritating when they&#39re purporting to have &#39created&#39 some work of fiction of their own, when in fact what they&#39ve done is ramble on about &#39that time in the Viper Room&#39 and settle some &#39too libellous for the autobiography&#39 scores under the guise of fiction, while the poor ghostwriter cobbles a novel out of it.

  • The ghostwriters get all the hard work and none of the credit, and sometimes less of the profit, too. Not fair when talented writers can&#39t get a decent advance! Having said that I&#39ve enjoyed ghostwritten books like Goldie Hawn&#39s- but she credits Wendy Holden at every opportunity :)

    I think partly it depends on the book- with an autobiography it&#39s more aceptable, as long as the writer gets credit, but with fiction it&#39s the hugest Nay!

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