Good news for book haters everywhere. Hillary Clinton is about to have a book ghostwritten for her that no one will actually read. Make that two books. Because she's extending her literary range to abusing children.
Hillary Clinton is announcing her first post-election plans: two book deals, including personal essays and a children’s version of It Takes a Village.
The book of essays will be inspired by hundreds of quotations she’s collected for decades, according to publishing house Simon & Schuster. “These are the words I live by,” said Clinton, who will use the quotes to tell some of the stories from her life, including her experiences during the 2016 election.
“These quotes have helped me celebrate the good times, laugh at the absurd times, persevere during the hard times and deepen my appreciation of all life has to offer," Clinton said in a statement.
Clinton’s 1995 book, It Takes a Village will be published as a color picture book for children. The book, which will be released this fall, will be illustrated by Marla Frazee.
If your children have been bad, buy them a picture book by Hillary Clinton. The colors will even be based on her garish pantsuits. And the title is a fake African proverb.
But it's the book of essays that's capturing everyone's attention. No one wanted to buy Hillary's last book. And this sounds like the sort of half-assed project politicians do when even their ghostwriters have run out of ideas. This actually looks like some of Caroline Kennedy's later projects.
The question is why is anyone still giving Hillary money?
As reported by the Associated Press today, Clinton, 69, will release her yet to be titled book with Simon & Schuster. Hundreds of her favorite quotes will be included and the publisher said Clinton will use these to tell stories from her life, up to and including her recent loss to now President Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential campaign, in addition to her thoughts on the future.
"These are the words I live by," Clinton said in a statement. "These quotes have helped me celebrate the good times, laugh at the absurd times, persevere during the hard times and deepen my appreciation of all life has to offer. I hope by sharing these words and my thoughts about them, the essays will be meaningful for readers."
Multimillion-dollar post-White House literary contracts are expected after each four to eight-year term, and despite her recent loss, Clinton’s advance is still expected to be massive, though financial terms have not been disclosed. She is represented by Washington attorney Robert Barnett; whose client roster includes former presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton.
Let's recall the fate of her previous book. That was when she was actually prepping her campaign.
Paying Hillary Clinton a $14 million advance for a badly ghostwritten book about the time she did nothing as Secretary of State proved to be a really bad choice.
Hillary Clinton's $14 million advance has to come out of book sales. Forget Amazon's discounting of the books, let's call it $7,000,000 in sales. Only a fraction of that goes to the author. Even assuming that Hillary has some crazy Stephen King, Grisham size royalties, that still means something between $1 and $2 million.
To make back her advance, Hard Choices would have to sell over two million copies. Living History, which was a success, only sold 1.1 million copies. And that was for an $8 million advance.
Hard Choices was a huge loss. And I'm not counting Stronger Together, her campaign book. No one bought that at all.
Hillary Clinton’s newest book, “Stronger Together,” which provides a policy blueprint for where she hopes to take the country if she is elected president, sold just 2,912 copies in its first week on sale, according to Nielsen BookScan.
Both Mrs. Clinton and her running mate, Senator Tim Kaine, have promoted the book on the campaign trail, but the sales figure, which tallies about 80 percent of booksellers nationwide and does not include e-books, firmly makes the book what the publishing industry would consider a flop.
Stronger Together was also put out by Simon and Schuster. It's not clear why they would take a look at that flop and want to get deeper into business with Hillary. But the Clintons still have their connections and their sympathizers. And S&S is probably betting that some of the angry marchers and protesters may want to cry over a Hillary book in solidarity.