Did anybody watch "author" Jenna Bush on Jay Leno last night?

[Cleita]

I didn't stay up to watch, but thought it curious that she was listed in the TV guides as author rather than Presidential daughter, Jenna Bush, even though she no doubt was pushing her ghost written book.

Is Bush such a poisonous association that even his own daughter is distancing herself from him as not helpful to her new "career"?

[edbermac]

1. Author? As in My Pet Goat - The Sequel?

:sarcasm:

[Cleita]

3. I should have put this up.

http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2028383,00.html

The book, called Ana's Story: A Journey of Hope, will focus on a 17-year-old orphaned single mother with HIV. It has been bought by HarperCollins for an undisclosed sum - believed to be above $300,000 (£155,500) - is due to be published this autumn. A "portion" of author and publisher proceeds will go to the US fund for Unicef, which supports child survival, protection and development worldwide through education, advocacy and fundraising.

[Octafish]

7. HarperCollins is Rupert MURDOCH.

Normally, $300,000 would be a lot of money for a ghosted book.

Certainly, the sum's just chump change for Chimpy's child.

[unpossibles]

16. "what? Zero's a portion!"

with pardons to Matt Groening.

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[Cleita]

5. I guess we aren't supposed to discuss the fact that Bush's

children don't want to have anything to do with him? I suppose you aren't a fan of freedom of speech either?

[gateley]

31. On a radio interview I heard her say with feeling about her dad "I love him SO much".

I think you may be getting the Bush girls confused with Giuliani's brood.

[Cleita]

33. Also, she may be as big a liar as him. n/t

[Swede]

8. Remember how the rightwing, left Chelsea Clinton out of the fray?

It was so noble,it brought tears to my eyes.

[AzDar]

9. Ahoy, matey. The Bush Family of Circus Performers put themselves out

there...they are fair game.
Perhaps you should get a few more posts under your belt before you begin criticizing DU'ers for calling them as they see them:
an evil empire....

[Virginia Dare]

10. Do you think Jenna would have been authoring the stupid book..

and getting massive promotion from it if she wasn't related to her idiot father?

[devilgrrl]

14. Attacking family members is only acceptable if it involves Kennedy's or Clinton's

Is that what you're getting at?

[KitchenWitch]

20. And no one ever attacked Chelsea Clinton...

enjoy your stay, it won't be long.

[Midlodemocrat]

22. The adults on this site aren't adverb phobic. It's reflect 'badly'.

:hi:

[CrispyQ]

23. Tell us again, who is childish?

[malta blue]

24. There is nothing childish about the OP.

Jenna is an adult promoting herself as a writer, nothing wrong with questioning her reasons for not promoting herself as the president's daughter....

[Moochy]

38. Concern Infantilization

A ham-handed attempt to infantilize critics of a bush family member, expressed as concern.

Textbook! A+

[terisan]

4. Hard to say whether she is distancing or just trying to promote her own brand. nt

[Cleita]

6. Well, most kids of celebrities promote their own brand by

changing their names giving them some sort of anonymity.

[Spazito]

11. It certainly seems to me to be a question of "economics"....

tout her connection to baby bush and lose sales re her book, it is as simple as that. If, on the other hand, bush's poll numbers were high, who her daddy is would be big on the promotional agenda, imo.

[Cleita]

13. Yep, you've got it. n/t

[Virginia Dare]

12. I read today where it has supposedly sold 41,000 copies..

which is being spun as a "success", because MOST books don't sell that well (I guess they're including self-published as well?). Reportedly, the publisher was banking on 100,000. Doesn't seem like a lot to me considering that she's been all over the tube and the country promoting the thing.

[Cleita]

15. The same think tanks that buy up Ann Coulter and Jonah Goldberg's

books probably bought that 41,000 to ensure a best seller. They then hand them out for free. I know I got several of Coulter's diatribe that way. I refuse to pay real money for them just for research.

[LibDemAlways]

19. I saw a big display full of them at Barnes and Noble

the other day, right at the entrance to the store where it would be impossible to miss. I browsed at nearby tables for quite a while trying to gauge interest in it. I didn't see even one person pick up a copy to thumb through. Everyone breezed right past. I think she's got a lemon there, partly because of the subject matter and partly because the Bush name is poison.

[nadinbrzezinski]

26. Well if she moved that many copies

that is a mid level author... whether it was bought by the usual suspects, or individual readers

[Virginia Dare]

29. Do mid-level authors get the level of promo she's getting?

it seems like she's getting "best-selling" type exposure on the talk circuit.

[nadinbrzezinski]

34. Of course but the way these contracts are done

is name recognition, she has it

Timeliness, it is still timely

Potential for money... she is making it

It looks like a standard contract, with the name recognition

by the by, Krugman is also a mid list author and he has gotten quite a bit of promotion

I don't see this as anything out of the ordinary, really

[Cleita]

36. I wonder if I would get the same level of promotion for my

first book if I use a recognizable name as my nom de plume, maybe Trisha Coulter, Ann's evil twin. My writing would of course be that hated word, "liberal".

I'm already laughing. :rofl: It's so hard to get published when you come up from the trenches. You don't get any editorial help or ghost writers or big displays in the bookstores. I have friends who have and some who still are going through the struggle.

[nadinbrzezinski]

37. That's what name recognition gets you

why Jurors in high profile cases at times cash in

:-)

And I am in the trenches

But her name is buying her that.

If she was your average Bush, and not the daughter of George, I doubt she'd get beyond a small time print mag for her first book

But that is the reality of the market...

More than one agent has explained this one.

In fact, if I were an Agent and Jena aproached me... I'd take her in a new york second

[Virginia Dare]

39. So, the publisher will recoup all of the outlay?

I have no idea what a promo like this costs, but 41,000 seems like a pittance in return. Her name alone should have sold 250k it seems to me.

[Benhurst]

17. When it comes to writers in the talented Bush family, Jenna is second only to

Millie, Bar's dog.

But to be fair, Millie put a lot more time and effort into her ghosted book.

[Bitwit1234]

18. After headlines I turned Leno off

and I couldn't have stood the chippy any way.

[Whisp]

28. haha. Headlines is great!

that's the only part of Leno's show i look forward to. Otherwise I think he's a total ass, - That 'spinchter' one was precious. heheh. favourite one ever that I recall is this ad:
for toilet seat covers or lids - pic and copy reading: Available in Ass. colours. hahahah!

but to stay on topic, I did see the interview with Jenna and noticed she sure likes to cut in and talk a lot - wouldn't let Jay get in much, but that's okay with me. I think she generally conducted herself well and wasn't quite the total vacuous stupid person that I was led to believe. Kinda feel sorry for those Bush kids, actually. but don't spend much time thinking about them.

[postulater]

21. Leno? Heck, the Packers were on Monday night football.

What's the choice - Jenna Bush vs. Deanna Favre?

Leno lost.

[nadinbrzezinski]

25. In the world of publishing she is an author

whether she wrote it or not, it is under her name

Hence, she is a writer and a published author.

Sorry, that is the business I work in

[Virginia Dare]

30. Well, so was Millie Bush as far as that goes...n/t

[nadinbrzezinski]

35. Yep, so

[htuttle]

27. The Bush family is like a political version of The Aristocrats joke.

Bah...

[Dora]

32. She is an author promoting her book.

It's all about the context. She's an adult, she wrote a book, she's on a tour to sign copies and push sales. She's in the game, for whatever that's worth. Her dad is who he is, she is who she is, and though she will always be his daughter, she is also her own person with an identity of her own. I think that the issue of "distancing" isn't relevant here.