Giving up Madonna's Ghost
According to Page Six (a publication almost Biblical in it's reliability), Madonna has a ghostwriter for her children's books.
Lotsa de Casha was not written by the sexily-fingered hand of the Material Girl herself? Zut Alors! What's next? Jenna Jameson not ACTUALLY writing How to Make love like a porn star? The Bible, not ACTUALLY written by God? I feel the light dimming before my eyes when I can no longer trust the veracity of the written word.
From Forbes 2003 comes this article, which quotes a book publisher as saying: "getting a ghostwriter is like booking a flight to Los Angeles." My favorite line is this:
Lotsa de Casha was not written by the sexily-fingered hand of the Material Girl herself? Zut Alors! What's next? Jenna Jameson not ACTUALLY writing How to Make love like a porn star? The Bible, not ACTUALLY written by God? I feel the light dimming before my eyes when I can no longer trust the veracity of the written word.
From Forbes 2003 comes this article, which quotes a book publisher as saying: "getting a ghostwriter is like booking a flight to Los Angeles." My favorite line is this:
Ghosts, awash in celebrity egos, often are happy to forgo fame themselves. Novelist Quinton Skinner moonlights as a ghost and says a cowriting credit brings a smaller fee. "I'm telling someone else's story," he says. "Frankly, I'd rather have the money."
posted by Kathleen at 9:36 AM
2 Comments:
It wasn't me. :)
:)
I've always thought it'd be fun to ghost-write a book, but then I think I'd turn it into a fiction story, which is probably a bad idea :)))
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