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Mar 13 2008 12:00am EDT

Spitzer Scandal Adds Juice to Book Sale

Ashley Alexandra Dupre may or may not get her book deal, but the Eliot Spitzer effect is already making itself felt in the publishing market.

This was the featured "Deal of the Day" on Publishers Marketplace yesterday:

Natalie McLennan's THE PRICE: My Life as "Natalia," New York's $2,000 An Hour Escort, the rise, fall, and redemption of a promising young actress who falls in love with a man with ambitions of building the most exclusive brothel in New York and markets her as the "$2,000 An Hour Woman," to Michael Viner at Phoenix, by Jason Anthony at Zachary Shuster Harmsworth Literary Agency (World).

Coincidence?. □


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