Article: Celebrity books no longer make the grade.(Features)

Byline: PETER ELSON

IF I WASN'T so busy writing this, I'd be on a publicity tour plugging my book, published in time for Christmas. Except I was so busy writing some other assignment that I haven't had time to cobble together my book yet, so the question is academic.

Unlike the celebrity autobiographies, which are so light-weight that they could float away on one blast of air out of the Mersey Tunnel.

Not long ago, anybody who appeared on the telly was deemed worthy of publishing an autobiography. Lack of life achievement or literary ability was no barrier to producing a book. After all, there were plenty of people on the pay-roll who could take ...

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