There's not too much to write about this week, that I haven't already said. The authorship in popular media project went smoothly, so it's on to "ghostwriting".
Having just read the "Artful Deception" article, some things come to mind:
Not wanting to discredit ghostwriters, but if you really don't like it, don't do it. The very fact that there's a business for ghostwriters and ghostwriting makes it clear that just like anything else, it's a business. And of course, where there's a business, there's money involved. No one is forcing ghostwriters to ghostwrite. Simply put, ghostwriters are employees who get paid to do their job.
As for the issue of celebrities not writing their own books: that was not a big surprise to me. After all, they don't get paid huge amounts of money because they can write well. Politicians, in the same aspect, are politicians because they know how to sell their ideas and market themselves. They made their names because they can "sell" the words written for them.
That being said, issues of completely discrediting the ghostwriter or authoring something after the author's death are a bit ridiculous.
Only in today's world can a guy still write books years after his death.
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First of all nice work on bringing the Ghostbusters into English 201. I've been searching for a way to do it, I'm glad you got there.
Anyway, as for the ghostwriting I'm more or less disgusted. Granted I don't think people believe celebrities write their books by themselves, but I also don't think they know the extent of ghostwriting. The fact that the publishers and authors take any step to more or less hide the ghostwriter's body once he's done with the book just seems filthy. If you want to buy "Britney Spears: The Autobiograhpy" (God knows why) then you want to hear trailer-trash Brittany. Otherwise you may as well put the book in the fiction section and at least let readers know what they're getting into. As for the ghostwriter, something tells me it's not much of a job. I've met writers before, and even the ones regularly employed are paupers.
An author writing a book after his death kinda reminds me of when a musician dies, but then you hear a commercial saying that they have a new cd coming out next week. A little weird if you ask me...but I guess people want to make money any way they can.
I've got to admit, your title lured me into reading your blog of the week. And another confession, I have not read any autobios of any of the celebrity/presidents. Now I'm fully warned that they are not the author of "their" own books, it only add more reasons to not read the book.
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