Let’s Talk About Celebrity Authors

Hi friends! 👋🏻 If working in a library has taught me one thing about books that I didn’t already know (which is kind of impossible), it’s that there are a lot of books that are written by celebrities. Or books that have celebrity names on them. I am not entirely opposed to celebrities writing books but that tiny little snob who lives in the deepest depths of me does like to rear her little head and wonder how a certain celebrity got a book deal and how much their ghostwriter wrote as opposed to the celebrity. I don’t think I’ve seen anybody talk about celebrity books for a very long time in the blogosphere because that weird little boom of everyone and their mother getting a book deal has come and gone and been replaced by five other things. Just looking at YouTubers alone we’ve gone from books to paid sponsorships, makeup palettes, plushies, vinyl figures, and now (depending on the person) NFTs. But this is something that has crossed my mind recently because I see a lot of celebrity books, especially some from authors who I would never have thought of as being someone who would want a book deal. Non-readers […]