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Is This the Most Depressing Book Deal Ever?

Venice Fulton scores 7 figures for dieting advice like: skip breakfast

By Kate Seamons,  Newser Staff

Posted May 22, 2012 2:10 PM CDT

(Newser) – Today, in the annals of careers you really should have chosen instead of the one you're doing right now: diet-book writer. Grand Central Publishing has announced that it has won the rights to Venice A. Fulton's Six Weeks to OMG. Fulton will apparently get "seven figures" for the deal (in the US ... he got an "equally spectacular" deal in the UK, reports AP). What brilliance is contained in his dieting tome? He pushes no breakfast, being careful about eating broccoli, and taking cold baths. Seven figures.

Of course, to rake in mega-bucks like that you'll need a tagline as winning as Fulton's: "Get skinnier than all your friends." Writing for the Atlantic Wire, Ray Gustini recommends you "drop that novel you're working on about hometowns and come up with a few diet ideas. Maybe something involving ice chips." Or you could always try this depressingly lucrative career.

Venice Fulton's book.
Venice Fulton's book.   (Amazon.com)
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Rubbedlung
May 22, 2012 6:49 PM CDT
This is actually the most depressing book however, http://blogs.publishersweekly.com/blogs/PWxyz/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/microwave-cooking-for-one.jpg 
ladyrosedeky
May 22, 2012 3:40 PM CDT
Five to ten she''s a closet bulemic and secretly gets liposuction. Eating three meals high protein meals a day with lots of exercise is the only thing that has ever worked for me. Been there done that skipping breakfast routine. She can have it. I've never been a skinny, boney, B. I've always had coke bottle curves. As my son said to me when he was seven after he had hugged a teacher assistant that he really lliked at school that was skinny and boney and was trying to get me to eat more, Mommy, I love you stuffed with fluff like Pooh. I don't want you to be like Ms. Stewart. She's hard.'
gomer99
May 22, 2012 2:28 PM CDT
The only people dumber than the author and the publisher are the ones who buy the book.
 

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