Friday, July 25, 2008 - Rapper's Books-a-Million - From Vulgarity to Literacy???
It seems that these days any writer-wanna-be can have their books out... However, it's a whole another question if they are really gonna make a contribution to the literary world with their celebrity "tell-all-biographies" and "how-to-lose-weight" books. After all, not everyone writes children's books like Madonna.
A New York publisher is suing Lil' Kim and Foxy Brown, saying they were paid advances for books they never delivered.
 
Simon & Schuster Inc. says Brown was paid $75,000 in 2005 to deliver an autobiography called "Broken Silence" by February 2006; and Lil' Kim was paid $40,000 in 2003 for a novel due June 2004.
The publisher wants its money back through the two lawsuits filed Thursday.
After signing the deals, both women were imprisoned for several months. Lil' Kim went to prison in 2005 for lying about a shooting, and Brown in 2007 for violating probation arising from a fight with two manicurists.
The rapper divas' attornies did not comment on the situation... (Maybe they are still hoping for Oprah's book club approval to get out of the trouble.)
In any case, these unwritten autobiographies won't be a loss for the literary community.
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