To think money and connections still count too much? (Lighthearted)

[Casiloco]

Specifically, was persuaded to read Santa Montefiore's latest book - The Temptation of Gracie. I was obviously naive to think that a novel that is a Sunday Times Bestseller might actually be vaguely readable and not a pile of nauseatingly sentimental, unconvincingly plotted poo.

Apparently she has written quite a few previous books of a similar type, I'm told.

There is a whole genre of this type of book - patronisingly called chick lit - and I guess there are not all written by people with her connections but HOW do these get published even?

Anyone else suffered the same disappointment with this lack of quality of writing from a successful author?

Yes, Cecilia Ahern's first book, Ps I Love You, was a good story but poorly written.
I couldn't help but think it would never have got published if she hasn't been the Irish PM's daughter.

I raise you Kirsty Wark's effort

I agree OP. But that’s the way it works. The nepotism is astounding. I wonder if many of them have enough self awareness to realise that they get jobs or contracts because of their name, not their ‘talent.”

Yanbu. Pile of shite even though I haven't read it.

But in the general sense, you can largely be unremarkable yet get very very far in life with the right last name / connections etc.

Jacob Rees Mogg's book got an absolute slating in the Guardian today.

Same in The TImes yesterday for JRMs book.

They get published because people enjoy reading shit. You don’t have to like it but blame it on nepotism. She’s clearly providing something that a lot of people getjoy out of. Good for them and good for her.

You're right Boggles - clearly people do read this shite. That just makes me depressed.

I love the odd chick lit book. Not to much as you start to feel the brain cells die off. I just like it for the pure escapism of it. I also try not to read to much around the genre or the plot which is being written about

There's nothing wrong with chick lit, just with badly written chick lit which would never have been published if the author wasn't famous or at least well known, and/or wealthy, or the child of someone famous...