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Bad publicity is when they spell your name wrong or confuse you with a different person with a similar name.
I've just read the story on the BBC. Shifty af
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There really was an easy way around this, fiction, with the ol inspired by a true story tag on the cover
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 
Me thinks.
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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 really didn’t have to.
* Bev said, early on, that her spidey-sense started to tingle a lot while reading… it didn’t feel right, not sincere, genuine. Why didn’t anyone else (agent! editor!) pick this up, too?
* The disaster-scenario would be that Ms. Winn really can’t write very well/or at all, and this was a project largely engineered by the agent (or less likely, the editor). In this case, Winn could argue were there a court case that – Hey… it wasn’t me! You guys did all the “constructive editing”…. I simply took your advice! That would be nasty, because Winn may not have very deep pockets (now!) but the publisher does, and they might become a target for any US litigation. Hope this wasn’t the case.
* 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 really didn’t have to.
* Bev said, early on, that her spidey-sense started to tingle a lot while reading… it didn’t feel right, not sincere, genuine. Why didn’t anyone else (agent! editor!) pick this up, too?
* The disaster-scenario would be that Ms. Winn really can’t write very well/or at all, and this was a project largely engineered by the agent (or less likely, the editor). In this case, Winn could argue were there a court case that – Hey… it wasn’t me! You guys did all the “constructive editing”…. I simply took your advice! That would be nasty, because Winn may not have very deep pockets (now!) but the publisher does, and they might become a target for any US litigation. Hope this wasn’t the case.
There’s this. Not sure how much it clarifies, because it skips over the embezzlement thing. But it’s quite a sound rebuttal.
www.raynorwinn.co.uk
Raynor Winn
www.raynorwinn.co.uk
I don't know how much impact this could have in the US. I think we're quite accepting of the fact that everything is made up, from the White House to Hollywood and back. Prime example, the movie Fargo, says "based on true events" at the start of the film and none of it is even kind of based on a true event (okay, a guy tried to hire a hit man to kill his wife, but he tried to hire an undercover cop so it didn't go far). I did love that the TV series of the same name carried on with that tag, and again; whole cloth
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I think someone may have done, had to have done, but day-to-day junior staff would keep quiet once the production process was rolling. It was at the acquisition point where the hard questions – does this really sound right? – should have been asked, by more senior people. Agent included. (Whose website raves about Winn. Even now, today.)
But commercial thinking obviously won out. And, authenticity and ethics aside, her book has sold well, so from that point of view alone, they were right.
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LATEST – from today's The Bookseller
"A statement from the publisher read: "Given recent events, in particular intrusive conjecture around Moth’s health condition which has caused considerable distress to Raynor Winn and her family, it is our priority to support the author at this time. With this in mind, Penguin Michael Joseph, together with the author, have made the decision to delay the publication of On Winter Hill from this October. We will announce a new publication date in due course." "
"Penguin Michael Joseph delays publication
of Raynor Winn's next book"
The Bookseller said: "Penguin Michael Joseph (PMJ) will delay the publication of The Salt Path author Raynor Winn’s next book, On Winter Hill, following an investigation in the Observer over the weekend that suggested her debut memoir was not entirely true."A statement from the publisher read: "Given recent events, in particular intrusive conjecture around Moth’s health condition which has caused considerable distress to Raynor Winn and her family, it is our priority to support the author at this time. With this in mind, Penguin Michael Joseph, together with the author, have made the decision to delay the publication of On Winter Hill from this October. We will announce a new publication date in due course." "
I think in non-PR speak this is saying "There's a bit of a Raynor kerfuffle right now, but it should completely blow over if we back up a year."
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