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So I haven’t read a single word written by Ms. Winn / Walker, but… here are some conjectures... * I assume she’s got some real, natural writing talent. What a shame, then, that things have gone off the rails like this. As Matt says above, they...

This story by this point, in both conventional and social media, feels the opposite outcome of the M&S strawberries and cream sandwich. The Salt Path is now a bit of a 💩:sandwich: Me thinks.

There really was an easy way around this, fiction, with the ol inspired by a true story tag on the cover

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Bad publicity is when they spell your name wrong or confuse you with a different person with a similar name.

Yup. Honestly, there's something about her style that feels a bit bogus. It's "hand wavy", if you know what I mean...

So it's true... No such thing as bad publicity!

This is the story that keeps on giving, at least from the Mail's pov. Lead story in today's paper. Including: Translation - I am deeply regretful I've been found out!

But yours is so much better. The readers are still there and they STILL want what they want.

Here's another interesting piece regarding the very salty path, including comments by other memoirists...

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...