Rats Deserting the Sinking Fictionalist
It's almost enough to make you feel sorry for him:
James Frey's literary agent has dumped him, claiming that he lied to her, too.
Huh.
If that's true, of course you can't blame her. But somehow I wonder if, now that the Frey train has derailed, and everyone hasn't made the vast majority of money off him that they're going to, everyone isn't just covering their own asses now.
He's not going to get another book deal for years, if ever...and if he does, it will presumably be for little money. (Every publisher knows that Frey will be desperate.)
Meanwhile, his agent will continue to take her 15% off further sales of A Million Little Pieces. One can assume she's already made a million bucks or so off the book.
"I have purposefully chosen not to comment on the controversy until now because I felt it was important to let James speak for himself," Evashevski told PW.
Boy. This is a cold town. That excuse is a load of crap. Evashevski didn't comment because she wanted to stay as far away from the controversy as possible, and hope that no one would notice her role in the Frey fiasco. At least Nan Talese had the guts to stick up for Frey, even if her reasoning was idiotic and her honesty uncertain.
As you may have noted, I'm not a fan of Frey's...but I hope that wherever he is, he has some people who are sticking by him and telling him that life will go on. I want the guy to learn a lesson...but it isn't necessary to destroy his life.
