Last year, I wrote a blog post called Are Celebrities Really Writers Too?, a topic I’d like to revisit, but from a different point of view. HERE is a longer list of 40 Celebrity Book Authors.
If you read the post above, then you already know how I feel about celebrities writing a book, now I want to talk about how a writer morphs into a celeb. To name a few, John Grisham, Danielle Steel, Janet Evanovich, Stephen King, Emily Giffin, Jan Karon and Jennifer Weiner, didn’t start out as a celeb who turned into a writer, that’s what they already were! This is how we knew them. We don’t know them for playing roles on film and we don’t see them wearing sunglasses and on every cover of a tabloid. Instead, they are at home (or wherever) creating “rockstar” characters. When their book is published and placed in bookstores, doesn’t that give them rights to say that they are a celebrity? (I certainly would feel like one). When an author goes “on tour,” doesn’t that make them famous? At book signings, people come to meet the writer, correct? Well, don’t people love meeting celebs, too?
Happy Friday, everyone!
(The picture is of my favorite Chick Lit writer, Emily Giffin).