Simon & Schuster Hits A New Low - Publishing A Snooki Novel
As much as I might loathe certain reality stars, I have never begrudged them the ability to earn as much money as people are willing to pay them. If someone wants to pay $100K for some reality star to show up at their club, then the reality star would be an idiot for not taking it.
I also don't have a problem for the most part with companies trying to exploit the popularity of someone for their own benefit. If Simon & Schuster wants to write a book about Snooki or have her "write" a biography with a lot of pictures, I think it is a waste of space, but I don't have a problem with it.
What I do have a problem with is Simon & Schuster or any publisher wasting release dates and a limited amount of available money to publish a novel "written" by Snooki. You, me, and everyone in the world knows that Snooki is not writing a novel, but that has not stopped Snooki or her publisher from saying that she is and that her book entitled A Shore Thing will be released in January.
The reason this ticks me off is that I know so many people who are great writers and submit their manuscripts and get rejected by publishers. Yet somehow Snooki gets her novel published??? You have got to be kidding me. I cannot wait until she goes on a tour for this book and does readings, I want everyone to ask her what inspired that scene or when she wrote it or where she wrote that part. Simon & Schuster should be ashamed.
