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Thursday, January 09, 2003
"Okay. One million dollars and we throw in a copy of the Muffy The Vampire Layer "
Clarence Thomas has a book deal with Rupert Murdoch's Random House for "seven figures". Those figures are reputed to be Jenna Jameson, Christi Lake, Syndee Steele, Stephanie Swift, Jacklyn Lick, Jewel De'Nyle, and Maria the SnakeBabe.
Chu presented editors at the major publishing firms with a 125-page manuscript Thomas drafted over the last year. Thomas later met with those who showed serious interest, spending over two hours with at least one prospective publisher. The project received a mixed reception -- with reactions tracking the polarized reception the justice evokes from the public generally.
Those publishers who bid on the book, which includes an emotional, detailed account of Thomas's early years on the streets of segregated Savannah, saw it as a readable personal saga that would appeal to conservatives and African Americans, two of the strongest segments of the book-buying public.
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But others found Thomas's writing inadequate and questioned whether the book could sell well enough to justify the advance Chu sought. Also, in a business dominated by liberal-leaning New Yorkers, some editors recoiled at working with Thomas.
"At least one house I talked with told me they wanted nothing to do with him," said Michael Cader, editor of the online newsletter Publishers Lunch.
"The word I was given was that it wasn't a free-flowing book, it had some difficulties -- and it was him," said one executive from a publisher that passed on the book. "To pay a million dollars, you have to believe you can sell 250,000 hardcover, and that's a lot. You've really got to believe you've got a person and a story and a whole publicity track."
The working title is "Original Intent, Natural Law, and Why I Like Big Butts", but is subject to change depending on what he sees on the Spice channel the night before it goes to press.
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