Jessie cashes in

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former prisoner of war Jessica Lynch has signed a
$1 million agreement with Alfred A. Knopf, giving the injured former
U.S. Army private the chance to tell her own story, the publisher said
on Tuesday.


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Cub Driver wrote:


NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former prisoner of war Jessica Lynch has signed a
$1 million agreement with Alfred A. Knopf, giving the injured former
U.S. Army private the chance to tell her own story, the publisher said
on Tuesday.

While I don't begrudge her the money, the choice of a questionable
ghost writer, released from the NYT for by-lining a story written by a
free-lancer means the whole project will be discredited.


Ed Rasimus
Fighter Pilot (ret)
***"When Thunder Rolled:
*** An F-105 Pilot Over N. Vietnam"
*** from Smithsonian Books
ISBN: 1588341038

"Ed Rasimus" wrote in message
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Cub Driver wrote:


NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former prisoner of war Jessica Lynch has signed a
$1 million agreement with Alfred A. Knopf, giving the injured former
U.S. Army private the chance to tell her own story, the publisher said
on Tuesday.

While I don't begrudge her the money, the choice of a , released from the
NYT for by-lining a story written by a
free-lancer means the whole project will be discredited.


I thought splitting a million bucks with a questionable ghost writer was
pretty cheap. She could have done better.

Now much did you get for "When Thunder Rolled"? Had to be what 2-3 million
;-)


Ed Rasimus
Fighter Pilot (ret)
***"When Thunder Rolled:
*** An F-105 Pilot Over N. Vietnam"
*** from Smithsonian Books
ISBN: 1588341038

"Cub Driver" wrote in message
...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former prisoner of war Jessica Lynch has signed a
$1 million agreement with Alfred A. Knopf, giving the injured former
U.S. Army private the chance to tell her own story, the publisher said
on Tuesday.


all the best -- Dan Ford


Was she in military aviation service?

Tex

Ed Rasimus wrote:

While I don't begrudge her the money, the choice of a questionable
ghost writer, released from the NYT for by-lining a story written by a
free-lancer means the whole project will be discredited.

I see it pretty much the same way. Unfortunately they want to sell the
story while it still has some sizzle.

I think for how to write a story in the "wounded, rescued soldier"
genre, one might look to General Sir John Hackett's _I Was A
Stranger_; he wrote it himself some 30 years after the fact when he
could research what the Germans had been up to.
--
Andrew Chaplin
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"Ed Rasimus" wrote in message

While I don't begrudge her the money, the choice of a questionable
ghost writer, released from the NYT for by-lining a story written by a
free-lancer means the whole project will be discredited.


Ed Rasimus

Sounds like jealous sour grapes to us, old boy!

"Phineas Pinkham" wrote in message

"Ed Rasimus" wrote in message

While I don't begrudge her the money, the choice of a questionable
ghost writer, released from the NYT for by-lining a story written
by a free-lancer means the whole project will be discredited.


Ed Rasimus

Sounds like jealous sour grapes to us, old boy!

Not to me. Ed's already got one excellent book written by his own hand and a
second on the way. He may not outsell Lynch, but I can certainly tell you
that he's getting more of my money and she is not.

--�
Tom Schoene Replace "invalid" with "net" to e-mail
"If brave men and women never died, there would be nothing
special about bravery." -- Andy Rooney (attributed)

"Thomas Schoene" wrote in message

While I don't begrudge her the money, the choice of a questionable
ghost writer, released from the NYT for by-lining a story written
by a free-lancer means the whole project will be discredited.


Ed Rasimus

Sounds like jealous sour grapes to us, old boy!

Not to me.
Tom Schoene

In addition to a Pulitzer Prize, Rick Bragg, the ghost writer-
has twice won the prestigious American Society of Newspaper Editors
Distinguished Writing Award, and more than 50 writing awards in his 20-year
career. In 1992, he was awarded a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University.
He has taught writing in colleges and in newspaper news rooms.

Sour grapes mode still on! :-)

"Leadfoot" wrote:

I thought splitting a million bucks with a questionable ghost writer was
pretty cheap. She could have done better.

Now much did you get for "When Thunder Rolled"? Had to be what 2-3 million
;-)

My royalties, if and when they ever arrive, will pale by comparison.
I'm planning on taking my wife to dinner. Somewhere nice...Carrabas or
Chili's maybe....



Ed Rasimus
Fighter Pilot (ret)
***"When Thunder Rolled:
*** An F-105 Pilot Over N. Vietnam"
*** from Smithsonian Books
ISBN: 1588341038

Lord knows, after the pack of lies that
was released about her, she can't really be put down for sticking her hand
into the cookie jar and taking her shot.

What would you say if (in the unlikely event) that she tells the true story
exactly as it happened and not as the government fantasizes? That'd surely
make her a hero in my eyes. Wait and see.

Quent