Controversial author hires writers to churn out novels on the cheap
(NEWSER) - James Frey, infamous for angering Oprah with his "fake memoir" A Million Little Pieces, idolizes Vonnegut, Hemingway, and Henry Miller. He's the kind of writer who talks about wanting to "change the game" and "move the paradigm." Yet he's also the head of Full Fathom Five, a young-adult novel factory that pays writers nearly nothing to churn out highly commercial books for Frey—who hopes to eventually stumble upon the next Twilight or Harry Potter. Suzanne Mozes, who briefly aspired to join the program after hearing Frey pitch it during one of her Columbia graduate writing seminars, discloses the controversial inner workings in a lengthy New York article. More»
