Pippa Middleton gets £400,000 for a party planning book. Amusing assessment from the
Independent :
The party tome is a classic Sudden Fame Cash-In Book, a low-brow
genre even less dignified than the celebrity memoir. Whereas the latter
tends to appear towards the end of a lengthy entertainment career, the
former tends to be rushed out in haste soon after the author's first
exposure to the public's gaze, for fear that their appeal may not
survive the year.
The most recent example is Nancy Dell'Olio, who
announced two weeks ago that she is to write a "lovers' guide" (with
pictures of herself in saucy knickers). Ms Dell'Olio was known for years
only as the hyper-maquillaged Italian girlfriend of the England
football manager Sven-Goran Eriksson, but her celebrity was fast-tracked
by her appearance on this year's Strictly Come Dancing.
An
earlier example of the cash-in author, someone persuaded to produce a
book despite having no particular talent or subject, was Christine
Hamilton. Known only for her on-camera handbagging of Martin Bell during
the 1997 election campaign, when he stood against her husband, Neil
Hamilton, she was ridiculed by the press as a classic Tory harridan and
Home Counties termagant. So, following the famous advice that when it's
raining lemons you make lemonade, she published The Book of British
Battleaxes.
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