European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 3, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Books trumpeting Ivanas Book but did she write it by Anemona Hartocollis new Day in a Mega Blitz of publicity Ivana Trump has made her debut As a fiction writer charming talk show hosts and Magazine writers with tales of How she spent hours a talking and talking and a thinking and thinking while developing the Romance among the glitterati plot of her novel for love alone. Deftly tactfully Trump has managed to suggest that she wrote the novel without Ever coming out and actually saying so. All but hidden amid the hype is the fact that although Ivanas name is on the jacket the Book was conceived by committee and produced by a ghostwriter a professional writer hired to spin a yarn and then sit Back and let Ivana take the credit using her celebrity to sell the Book. A a it a a Vunder Ful Vunder Ful Book a the budding a a novelist gushed to people Magazine. A to my Surprise i find out i have a great behind the Trump novel is a Story of intrigue and calculation that begins almost two years ago when Ivana a in the midst of her sensational divorce from the Donald a was first approached with the concept of doing a Romance novel. Her Book is just the latest chapter in a Long running serial in which celebrities make extra Money and prestige by putting their names on books written mostly by others. Will the Public buy it not just the Book but the idea that Ivana Trump is capable of writing a novel will readers Swallow the fable of the Gay Divorcee thrilled to discover that like a Barren Field that suddenly spouts Oil she has hidden literary Talent a a great imagination a i predict that this will be the biggest Book of 1992 in hard cover fiction a boasts her agent Robert Gottlieb vice president of William Morris who was also the Mastermind behind Scarlett the sequel to gone with the wind that sold a staggering 2.4 million copies in hard cover. Gottlieb admits that the novel is being sold As a commercial fiction a a hot commodity that will generate free publicity. A a she a going to get More publicity than any novelist since Hemingway no question about that a agrees Bill Adler a new York literary agent who takes credit for inventing the ghost written celebrity novel in the 1960s. A a she la be on every talk show. But its going to be a bomb if it ainu to a Good Book. Publicity does no to necessarily Transfer into indeed some will be Able to resist. A if you put me in a cell in the Federal prison in Marion locked up for 23, 24 hours a Day it would be a Long time before i picked it up a said Howard Kaminsky president and ceo of the Hearst Book group including mor Ivana Trump has her name beside for love alone. Row and Avon rivals of pocket books Trumps publishing House. He added that working on the Book must have been a a Good Way for Ivana to learn Adler predicts that for love alone will be a kind of litmus test for the a female celebrity Glamour if it fails the genre will die. But if it works a catching on he suggests with the Bingo crowd a a you can do one a year a beginning with Fergie the divorce bound Duchess of York. Ivana Trump is hardly the first celebrity to put her name on a work of fiction she did no to write at least not alone. The list includes such third string insiders As Maureen Dean wife of Nixon White House counsel John Dean and Beverly Sassoon wife of Hairdresser Vidal. Both the Dean and Sassoon novels were reputedly written by Lucianne Goldberg who was a candidate to write the Trump Book. Its not As if Ivana Trump Hasni to been candid about her Reliance on a ghostwriter. Sandwiched Between the dedication to her father children and Mother and the acknowledgement Page she devotes a separate Page to the cryptic message a i would like to thank my Friend Camille Marchetta for helping me to Tell Katrinka a apparently Ivanas first Choice was not Marchetta but Liz Nickles a Manhattan writer and experienced ghost. Nickles says she was actually hired in the fall of 1990, and met with Ivana two or three times. Nickles was abruptly fired when Ivana a frazzled by her impending divorce and her fathers sudden death a accused her of talking to the press. The accusation was false Nickles said. A there was a lot of Over concern about despite her bitter experience Nickles is Graceful. A i wish Ivana the Best a she says. A America its a great pickings from Strawberry swords by Guy curtright Cox news service Dairy by Darryl Strawberry with Art rust or. Bantam. As always Darryl Strawberry takes a big swing. But like last season against the braves he mostly generates hot air. The los Angeles dodgers slugger strikes out against his old team the new York mets and baseball in general in his controversial autobiography ineptly written by new York broadcaster and author Art rust or. After battling alcohol and family problems for years Strawberry says he found god before last season. But there is Little Christian spirit in this Book. Strawberry rips mets management As racist a there were so few Black players on the team. I Felt As if i were playing baseball at dred Scott memorial Park in glorious downtown Johannesburg Hines about his million Dollar contracts claims the new York press was out to get him and suggests that Best Friend Dwight Gooden May have used drugs during the 1986 world series. 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