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Get ready for the surprise of your life. Yes, this is one of those clichéd “you’d better be sitting for this” moments. British “glamour” model Katie Price (aka Jordan) has admitted that she doesn’t actually write any of her bestselling novels. And she’s released three of them – and fourteen other books as well. But she’s still more than happy to take all the credit for them.
Jordan says the concepts of each of the books is all her. She claims that she pretty much acts as an editor (though she doesn’t use that word… I’m not sure she knows it); directing her ghost writer on what’s supposed to happen in each chapter, then sending her off to write it on the typewriter. Yes, Katie also thinks stories are still written on typewriters. Or maybe she’s just delightfully old fashioned.
Far from writing her own novels, Miss Price - better known as Jordan - instead reveals she merely thinks up the plot - leaving the complex task of conjuring up the golden prose to an assistant.
“I’m not going to lie, I don’t sit there with a typewriter and write it, of course I don’t,” she said.
“I don’t have time to do that. I say how I want the storyline to be, each chapter is done, I read through it change it and then it goes away to be written.
“So I’m not going to sit here and say I write it word by word because I’d be lying. I actually say how I want the story and that’s how it happens.”
[From the Daily Mail]
Jordan’s first book sold 300,000 copies in six weeks; the second sold 160,000 in the first twelve weeks – bestsellers, to say the least. Celebrities using ghostwriters is nothing new. What’s annoying is how much credit Katie Price has taken for her books up to this point. Though the article only touches on her novels, one can only assume the ghostwriters worked their tails off on her other titles as well. They range from her three autobiographies to children’s picture books.
Price claims she’s too busy to actually write the books herself. So she has a ghostwriter for literary chores, a few nannies for the kids, a couple of housekeepers for the mansion… and I’m assuming a few ladies to have sex with her husband ? Maybe a couple of stunt models to walk the runway (or whatever it is a “glamour” model does), and probably someone to go to the bathroom for her as well? Sounds like a truly exhausting existence.
Here’s Jordan signing copies of her latest book ‘Angel Uncovered’ (which has already been reduced in price), at bookstore WHSmith in Surrey, England on Saturday. Images thanks to WENN.
Written by JayBird
Posted in Books, Jordan, Katie Price
10 Responses to “Shocker! Jordan admits she doesn’t write her novels”
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I believe I speak for everyone when I say, “duh.”
Also, all her modeling entails is “Look! Boobs!” While I’m not completely against that, it’s still amazing that she’s turned her surgically altered husk into a business empire.
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Typewriter? TYPEWRITER??! I think that tells us all we need to know about her writing skills.
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What the hell are they about, anyway?
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I hope these ghost writers are being paid a fortune then. Her name is on the book as the author in HUGE letters. I wonder if it says in small print on the back page ‘Not actually written by Katie Price’.
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Oh, sure, that’s all there is to writing–you just dream up the plot and “poof” it gets written…
I don’t know if this woman is an idiot, an ignoramus or what!?
As if coming up with a story is the hard part of writing?? As if going from idea-in-my-head to well-written-on-the-page was no big deal??
As if anyone who had enough “time” could write well!
I mean, she doesn’t even have the courtesy to give credit to the person who acutally writes the book–to say “and so-and-so does such a great job translating my ideas into words”
You know, I don’t think I have ever used the term “bimbo” to refer to someone, but in this case I can’t think of anything that suits her better. -
A Glamour Model is what the Brits call a “topless” model for newspapers…
Also known as a “Page Three” model
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That is not as unusual as you might think. One of my favorite authors James Patterson does it the same way. He thinks up the plot, and does an outline and then has someone else write the book. He doesn’t try to hide it, so I guess it is acceptable in the industry.
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I knew she couldn’t spell!
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I’ve read, “Angel” and “Angel Uncovered” I have to say, I LOVED BOTH books! you can just tell by reading these books the character Angel is based on Katie and lots of her experiences etc must have helped write the book, you only have to read the books to see how much in put Katie must of had on them, and I think you would be suprised
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She looks like a color inverted photo of Nicky Hilton.
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