Former model Katie Price has broken through the ranks of top children's authors anyway, receiving the equivalent of an Oscar nomination for her Perfect Ponies: My Pony Care Book. Not everyone is offering her their heartfelt congratulations, however, with the elite literati pouring scorn on her nomination largely because her book was ghost-written.The prestigious W.H. Smith Children's Book of the Year award will be presented at the Galaxy British Book Awards next month. But the decision to nominate Jordan's book has whipped high-brow authors into a frenzy. The Society of Authors, the Times has reported, has been inundated with complaints - the authors of Girl with a Pearl Earring and of Chocolat among them."I'm shocked," the Times reported Tracy Chevalier, author of Girl with a Pearl Earring, as saying. "I'm amazed the publishers even put the book up. If it's ghost-written then it's inappropriate that it should be shortlisted. I am disappointed by the judges." A ghost-writer is a professional writer who is paid to write books, articles, stories, or reports which are officially credited to another person. Celebrities, executives, and political leaders often hire ghost-writers to draft or edit books - usually their autobiographies. The ghost-writer is rarely acknowledged. Jordan's publishers insist that as Jordan herself is a "brand", it is impossible to say how much of the book she wrote herself, the Times reported. ..Celebs and Bubs
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