News reaches me via the grapevine that Anya's writing skills so impressed Harper Collins that they decided to get someone else to write her book with her.
Sacré Bleu !!
What about our heroines valiant struggle to be recognised as a bona fidé author?
What about her half finished novel about romance in the Scottish highlands?
A post on the Harper Colins site reveals how the book is to be ghostwritten by Andrew Crofts "the ghostwriter who crafted three No. 1 bestselling memoirs, including 'Just a Boy' and 'Little Prisoner".
Hmm.. Could it be that the flowery clap trap that Anya has been posting on her blog is considered not good enough to publish?
Evidently so as the services of another writer have been called upon to ensure that the book isn't filled with the dribble that we have had to endure so far.
But how will the Anya Sicko-fants take to this new improved style of writing which involves a real life author pointing out that "Mills and Boon styley prose" belongs firmly in the last milennium?
Only time will tell but Harper Collins are determined to claw back their advance fee (rumoured to be in excess of £20,000) and are "bigging up" the fact that Anya's blog was nominated for a media award run by the New Statesman magazine.
Spookily they fail to mention tha it was nominated by one of Anya's loyal Sicko-fants or that t it didn't even make the short list.
Never mind. Let's not let the facts get in the way of a good marketing campaign, eh!
The proposed advertising campaign aims also state that "Coverage will include interviews, features, reviews in key woman’s and lifestyle media. Strong strong serial sale expected."
Looks like a comment left in response to a post on this blog that it "Sounds like a 10 part "Bella" special to me." is spookily accurate.
At least they are going to be using Anya's blog as a marketing tool to promote the book (I was under the impression that was the raison d’être from the outset!)
I wonder if she'll be kind enough to add a link to this humble blog to present a balanced view.
Hmmm.. there's more chance of parking for free in a London hospital car park .......
We are also informed that the name "Anya Peters" is a pseudonym.
Blimey!
So she was lying to the New York Times as well as the BBC.
Who would have thought it ......
Image © Harper Collins Ltd
Friday, October 20, 2006
Abandoned. The true story of an author with poor writing skills.
News reaches me via the grapevine that Anya's writing skills so impressed Harper Collins that they decided to get someone else to write her book with her.
Sacré Bleu !!
What about our heroines valiant struggle to be recognised as a bona fidé author?
What about her half finished novel about romance in the Scottish highlands?
A post on the Harper Colins site reveals how the book is to be ghostwritten by Andrew Crofts "the ghostwriter who crafted three No. 1 bestselling memoirs, including 'Just a Boy' and 'Little Prisoner".
Hmm.. Could it be that the flowery clap trap that Anya has been posting on her blog is considered not good enough to publish?
Evidently so as the services of another writer have been called upon to ensure that the book isn't filled with the dribble that we have had to endure so far.
But how will the Anya Sicko-fants take to this new improved style of writing which involves a real life author pointing out that "Mills and Boon styley prose" belongs firmly in the last milennium?
Only time will tell but Harper Collins are determined to claw back their advance fee (rumoured to be in excess of £20,000) and are "bigging up" the fact that Anya's blog was nominated for a media award run by the New Statesman magazine.
Spookily they fail to mention tha it was nominated by one of Anya's loyal Sicko-fants or that t it didn't even make the short list.
Never mind. Let's not let the facts get in the way of a good marketing campaign, eh!
The proposed advertising campaign aims also state that "Coverage will include interviews, features, reviews in key woman’s and lifestyle media. Strong strong serial sale expected."
Looks like a comment left in response to a post on this blog that it "Sounds like a 10 part "Bella" special to me." is spookily accurate.
At least they are going to be using Anya's blog as a marketing tool to promote the book (I was under the impression that was the raison d’être from the outset!)
I wonder if she'll be kind enough to add a link to this humble blog to present a balanced view.
Hmmm.. there's more chance of parking for free in a London hospital car park .......
We are also informed that the name "Anya Peters" is a pseudonym.
Blimey!
So she was lying to the New York Times as well as the BBC.
Who would have thought it ......
Image © Harper Collins Ltd
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Mayeb she did not want to reveal her actuall real name. She has the right not to. And anyway I don't blame her for having bad writing skills, she was unloved and probably had trouble learning at school because of the abuse, so some one kindly enough wrote her story correctly with the write grammar.
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