Some Fan
Nov 12th, 2003, 09:41 AM
Maureen O'Brien says she wants to set the world straight on the matter of Mariah Carey's life story. There have been a number of versions of how the sexy songbird's big book deal allegedly went down or eventually "up" in smoke.
The truth is that Mariah's new (and Jennifer Lopez's former) Svengali - Benny Medina - did not pull the project out of the market before it was sold, but after! First, there was a Sept. 24 meeting with a handful of publishers. Within a week, Mariah chose HarperEntertainment as her favorite. Everybody included seemed thrilled with everybody else and HarperCollins proceeded to sell foreign rights at the Frankfurt Book Fair in Germany.
O'Brien says she and her publisher, Michael Morrison, had absolutely no qualms about the quality of what Mariah was peddling. "Her book proposal was absolutely fantastic. We were enthusiastic and remained so until Medina stepped in two weeks after the deal was struck and pulled the plug." Evidently, he didn't even bother to speak with the disappointed publisher.
The memoir, titled "Through the Rain," was to come out in the fall of 2004. Well, so much for the kind and genteel world of book publishing, where a handshake once used to seal a deal.
Resource(s): The New York Post
The truth is that Mariah's new (and Jennifer Lopez's former) Svengali - Benny Medina - did not pull the project out of the market before it was sold, but after! First, there was a Sept. 24 meeting with a handful of publishers. Within a week, Mariah chose HarperEntertainment as her favorite. Everybody included seemed thrilled with everybody else and HarperCollins proceeded to sell foreign rights at the Frankfurt Book Fair in Germany.
O'Brien says she and her publisher, Michael Morrison, had absolutely no qualms about the quality of what Mariah was peddling. "Her book proposal was absolutely fantastic. We were enthusiastic and remained so until Medina stepped in two weeks after the deal was struck and pulled the plug." Evidently, he didn't even bother to speak with the disappointed publisher.
The memoir, titled "Through the Rain," was to come out in the fall of 2004. Well, so much for the kind and genteel world of book publishing, where a handshake once used to seal a deal.
Resource(s): The New York Post