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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHundreds of writers and book agents sign joint letter demanding publishing industry bans Trump memoi
https://mobile.twitter.com/CBS_Herridge/status/1351362155485016066More than 250 signatories say there should be no book deals for an administration that caged children and encouraged a coup
Editors, publishing agents and authors have signed-up to a letter in the hundreds, demanding the industry deny Donald Trump the publication of any post-presidential memoir.
The letter, titled "No Book Deals for Traitors, was signed by more than 250 editors, authors and publishing agents last week.
Together, they oppose any Trump administration official from publishing a future book - including the outgoing president, who is rumoured to be considering a memoir.
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Hundreds of writers and book agents sign joint letter demanding publishing industry bans Trump memoi (Original Post)
SheltieLover
Jan 2021
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NNadir
(33,512 posts)1. Trump is illiterate, unintelligent and uninteresting and can't write a book without a ghost writer.
Vinca
(50,267 posts)2. They've always got the reliable nut publisher who's doing Hawley's book.
They've been peddling garbage for decades and Trump still has enough suckers on the line to make them some money.
Loki Liesmith
(4,602 posts)3. That's silly.
durablend
(7,460 posts)4. What's Trump going to write, really?
200 pages of "IT'S NOT FAIR IT'S NOT FAIR IT'S NOT FAIR I WUZ ROBBED!!!!" ?!?
NotAPuppet
(326 posts)5. Nobody in the civilized world needs to publish Trump's
"The Art of My Kampf". Maybe he can find a publisher in Russia.
AngryOldDem
(14,061 posts)6. There's enough bad fiction out there as it is...
...without Trump adding to the stinkpile.
But wondering which hack would be willing to ghostwrite it could be a good parlor game.
bermudat
(1,329 posts)7. Tramp will have his memoirs published in israel or russia.