Ok I am a little behind the times, but I just found out that Kendall Hart wrote a novel. Yes THE Kendall Hart. Don't know who she is? Ok I didn't either but she is a character on ABC's All My Children. That's right she is a character and she wrote a book titled Charm!. Apparently her husband and best friend (and enemy) were missing for a month, eventually found trapped in a mine shaft, so she had some time on her hands. Now everyone knows it only takes a month to write a novel. The book has been published by Hyperion, which is owned by Disney, as is ABC. I find this cross marketing disturbing. My thinking is that there are struggling authors out there, writing great novels, who can't catch a break because publishers are spending their time with books like Charm!. (I could go on but I have been told no one wants to hear my rantings.) Ok I haven't read it, and I suppose it could be the next great american novel, but I am still skeptical. If you would like to read Charm! the library owns it. Think I am a curmudgeon? Let me know--I can take it I've been called worse.
Thursday, April 24, 2008
I'm Not Charmed
Ok I am a little behind the times, but I just found out that Kendall Hart wrote a novel. Yes THE Kendall Hart. Don't know who she is? Ok I didn't either but she is a character on ABC's All My Children. That's right she is a character and she wrote a book titled Charm!. Apparently her husband and best friend (and enemy) were missing for a month, eventually found trapped in a mine shaft, so she had some time on her hands. Now everyone knows it only takes a month to write a novel. The book has been published by Hyperion, which is owned by Disney, as is ABC. I find this cross marketing disturbing. My thinking is that there are struggling authors out there, writing great novels, who can't catch a break because publishers are spending their time with books like Charm!. (I could go on but I have been told no one wants to hear my rantings.) Ok I haven't read it, and I suppose it could be the next great american novel, but I am still skeptical. If you would like to read Charm! the library owns it. Think I am a curmudgeon? Let me know--I can take it I've been called worse.
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I'm sure your assumptions on the quality of the book are spot on, though I'll be the first to admit with the short time I have on this planet I don't think I'll be checking it out.
ReplyDeleteThanks for pointing out the conflict of interest here. It's a shame art is pitched this way with middle management, and more for potential sales than potential quality; worse, most people don't have a care about it.