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June 12, 2008

Lynne Spears memoir "will not be a parenting book."
By webteam

So says People, which delivered the news that Mama Spears's manuscript -- put on hold after the teenaged Jamie Lynn Spears got preg -- will be published this fall. Originally titled Pop Culture Mom, the book is now called Through the Storm: A Real Story of Fame and Family in a Tabloid World, which seems both overly dramatic yet somehow more appropriate.

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June 12, 2008

Lynne Spears memoir "will not be a parenting book."
By Sharon Steel

So says People, which delivered the news that Mama Spears's manuscript -- put on hold after the teenaged Jamie Lynn Spears got preg -- will be published this fall. Originally titled Pop Culture Mom, the book is now called Through the Storm: A Real Story of Fame and Family in a Tabloid World, which seems both overly dramatic yet somehow more appropriate.

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Book Scandal, Everyone's An Author, Spin

April 01, 2008

365 Days, 365 Ways
By Sharon Steel

A Year of Magical Thinking, illustration via the Observer

Sorry for the Observer-centric coverage of late, but Leon Neyfakh's piece in this week's Observer -- about what he calls the "'how I turned my life around in one year' mini-genre" of memoirs -- is a absolutely great read. Plus, that image above is totally iconic.

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NY Observer, Publishing, Spin

March 31, 2008

He's Just Not That Into Your Library
By Sharon Steel

Did you read Rachel Donadio's NYBR back-page essay about literary dealbreakers yet? Or her subsquent Paper Cuts blog post, in which she asked Times readers to state their own literary dealbreakers?

So, what are the most common literary dealbreakers? People who don't read at all, people who love Ayn Rand, people who dote on Harry Potter, people who worship The Da Vinci Code, people who are too pretentious, and people who aren't pretentious enough.

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March 21, 2008

Will White People Buy Stuff White People Like, the Book?
By Sharon Steel

Memed Out

Have you read Stuff White People Like? It's a very funny blog. We hope it will be a very, very, very funny book. Actually, it will probably have to be the funniest book in the entire fucking world to sell enough copies to justify the alleged $350,000 Random House advance, as reported by the Observer's Leon Neyfakh

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Everyone's An Author, Lit Gossip, NY Observer

March 05, 2008

Literary Lies: The Next Generation
By Sharon Steel

RECALLED.

Everyone is all in a huff over the "Margaret Jones" scandal. Her True Life story, Love and Consequences: A Memoir of Hope and Survival, was a fraud. She is not part Native American. She was not an abused foster child living on the streets of L.A., or a member of the gang the Bloods. She grew up with her biological parents in Sherman Oaks, CA, and went to a private Episcopal high school.

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Book Scandal, Galley Cat, Lit Gossip

February 12, 2008

Anna Nicole Smith baby-drama bleeds into her latest unauthorized biography
By Sharon Steel

The New York Daily News reports today that the authors of the new Anna Nicole Smith book are suing their own publisher.

Jody (Babydol) Gibson, a former Hollywood "super madam," is selling "Anna Nicole Smith: Portrait of an Icon" online through her imprint, Corona. But authors Pol' Atteu and Patrik Simpson tell me they backed out of their arrangement with Gibson and are selling a separate "signature edition" through publisher Kings Road.

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Book Scandal, New York Daily News, Spin

February 01, 2008

Swag Off
By Sharon Steel

This Thursday Styles piece about beauty bloggers and swag is basically just repackages a million-year old story about beauty editors (or fashion editors, or whatever kind of editor) and the swag that they're inundated with on a regular basis.

What's funny is the subsequent debate that flared up on Jezebel

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Gawker, Lit Gossip, Publishing

October 02, 2007

What Makes Mainstream Media Mainstream
By Sharon Steel

Today, researching a story about celebrity comebacks sent us scurrying back in time for an Internet refresher course on the history of spin and PR. Edward Berneys, the "father of public relations," was responsible for originating the idea that a company product or a celebrity's image could be revitalized if you tapped into the emotions of the public.

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