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Well, that's me selling a memoir at the moment well and truly fucked, lol. Better speed up on my other writing ;)

Yep, got to agree. There’s a piece in BookBrunch today that says much the same, altho I don’t see commissioning habits changing any time soon:

I had no interest in this film from the first trailer. I know Bev had mentioned the book but I had no real idea of the story. The trailer has them camping on the edge of some cliff in pouring awful English rain and the tent failing. Then the...

Precisely. I actually think that if she’d been absolutely open about whatever happened, it might have made a stronger story. Tho’ a harder initial sell to publishers. (But we need to wait a bit before coming to any final conclusions, of course)...

Yeah, they could. The author will have given the usual warranty in the publishing contract that the book is what it purports to be, i.e. a true story. So the publisher might sue on the basis that they believed the warranty and it subsequent...

The 'Eat Pray Love' author had some unfortunate realities intrude after the fact. The woman who wrote about doing all Julia Child's recipes for her husband when she was broke and out of work turned out to be into S and M and got divorced in a...

The mail is all over it this morning: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14885197/Salt-Path-author-legal-action-publisher-Richard-Osman.html The Guardian too, saying: So it will dent the US performance, for sure...

Lawyers' pockets on all sides will be fattening up.

Absolutely! The timing is ever so slightly off for the movie, sadly for all concerned. I can just imagine the fraught interviews with cast… it’s still a heart-warming story, whether its true or not doesn’t matter… It’s very spinnable :)

I suspect the sales figures will initially rise as folks who haven't read the book have their curiosity piqued! The charity for the illness he allegedly suffered has pulled their support (the progression of CBD is apparently much worse and...

Yup. Quite a murky backstory to Where The Crawdads Sing. Worse when you consider some of the plot direction might be a clue to real events and culprits!