"When You're Born Into It": Margaret B. Jones's Unearthed Video
Pardon me for piling on but, well, I find it riveting to watch somebody just flat-out lie. Harry Allen at Media Assassin (yes, that "media assassin / Harry Allen") has obtained what appears to be a promo video shot with Margaret B. Jones--er, Peggy Seltzer's faux South Central memoir, Love and Consequences. Have at it (and read Allen's blow-by-blow critique):
(Via GalleyCat. Meanwhile, Ron at GalleyCat has been running an excellent series of posts about the endless trend toward using photos of women facing away from the camera on the covers of women's fiction, but, surprisingly, this now-notorious cover has not come up. Even if "Jones"'s story had been true I wouldn't have expected the cover photo to actually be of Jones and her adoptive "Big Mom," but does it strike anyone else as odd to be using stock photos on the cover of a memoir?) --Tom
Richard Lord on April 30, 2008 at 06:44 PM
Not just odd, Tom, but both stupid and misleading. I guess we should consider that the publishers evidently showed a lot of stupidity and atempts to mislead in the whole affair.
veggies on May 01, 2008 at 10:41 PM
I've posted about headless women on books as well. Take a look! It's a disturbing trend. I have heard that a buyer for one of the big retailers REQUIRES that women's literature have headless women on the covers.
veggies on May 01, 2008 at 10:43 PM
forgot the link:
http://www.populationfive.com/2008/05/headless_women.html
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