Fantasia’s ghost writer not happy about lack of recognition
Hot on the heels of Joe Barrino’s lawsuit comes news that her ghost writer of her best selling memoir Fantasia: Life Is Not a Fairytale, Kim Green, now wants recognition for the fact she was the one who wrote the book. She talked exclusively with RadarOnline.
Barrino’s Life Is Not a Fairy Tale, published in October 2005, sold more than 48,000 copies and made the New York Times non-fiction best-seller list. But Green, who was paid only $45,000 for her efforts, has received no credit for it, nor for the Lifetime movie it inspired, which aired on the network last month. She even had to buy her own ticket to a concert Barrino gave in Atlanta recently. “I just think it’s a terrible statement about the entertainment business,” she adds.
Unfortunately for Green, most publishers won’t hire ghost writers who kiss and tell after they write a book, best selling or not. Sounds more like sour grapes.
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October 3rd, 2006 at 10:15 pm
This sounds like sour grapes to me. She was happy enough to be a ghost writer when she got the contract but now that it became a best seller she deserves the credit? PULEEZE.