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Originally Posted by Teresa Edgerton  I'm not sure what you are saying here. Do you mean that first time novelists don't get offered book deals unless they already have publishing credits or happen to be celebrities? Or are you saying something else that my five-o-clock in the morning brain is failing to understand? |
Say you're a celebrity, and you announce in middle of televised interview that you have been doing a novel (even if you haven't). This will be heard by many people and probably yield you a couple of more interviews by national papers. Certain parties read this and start to approach your publicist who asks about the deal from the celebrity. Announcement being bogus, publicist deals with the damage and hires a ghost writer for the celebrity. Nine months later book sees daylight in shops. The celebrity gets all the fame, while the ghost writer gets money to keep his or her mouth shut.
In this example a group of people around the celebrity make sure that deal is solid and nobody is any wiser and before you say, it won't happen. It has happened.
Rest of us have to work very hard on getting the deal. That's how the life unfortunately works. Also I'm not saying that celebrity book is any better then any other book out there, because it might be even worse.