until I, like every other online cesspool, would make reference to Pippa Middleton's bum.
Actually, sorry - I mean her new book!
Here is an article on the Guardian Books site today, in which Alison Flood (sorry, Al - normally you're ace) decries the ridiculous advance Pippa recently got for her book on party planning: http://bit.ly/ugb3sX
It's very late and I'm very tired, and as usual there's wine involved, but I'd just like to point something out here. Publishers have to juggle talent and money. Talent and money. Sadly, the two don't always come together. So, when you get someone like Pippa, who they know they'll make mega bucks off, they'll give her a massive advance, just to keep [her] profit safe [with them]. What that means, then, is that they have more money. And what do they do with all this money?
Oh, that's right. Spend it on developing new and interesting authors. Cos, y'know, wealth begets wealth in the same way that poverty begets poverty.
So, sometimes, it pays. Selling out pays.
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