JENNIFER PLATT | A superstar does not necessarily a best-selling author make

Just ask Billie Eilish and Piers Morgan, who have millions of social media fans but don’t seem to interest readers

08 December 2021 - 19:49

Sometimes it’s easy to predict which book will be a best-seller, but as the New York Times wrote recently, a potential writer with a major social media following is not necessarily that author. ..

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