The Winner of Musings From the Moon Comment of the Week (and corresponding tee-shirt) IS:
Mar 29th, 2009 by BohemianMoon
Musings Blogger CRYSTAL with:
3) Kate can only talk about Kate if she gets her talk show. I predict she’ll probably want to promote her new soon-to-be-released cookbook entitled “How to Make Meatloaf Sandwiches for Your Dickless Husband and 100 other Recipes for You Poor Bastards Out There Who Don’t Know How to Shill Your Kids for a Living”. Recipes like “How to Pickle Your Husband’s Schmeckle ” and “Deepfried Balls with Harristown Dipping Sauce” are included in the bonus section, I understand.
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Congratulations, Crystal!
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Several months ago, I e-mailed Zondervan Publishers who published Kate’s first two books that if they published her third book with the proposed title: “Love is in the Mix, Making Memories out of Meals” that their reputation as being the leading publisher of Christian literature would be tarnished.
I further told them that Kate’s recipes were not original and that they could be found on the backs of cereal boxes, cream cheese containers, soup cans, other ingredients as well as from women’s magazines. I pointed out that Women’s Day or Family Circle, I can’t remember which had Kate’s FAMOUS flag cake on the cover of the magazine in June and that Kate wasn’t listed as the author.
I told them that publishing the book would lead to a number of lawsuits for plagiarism filed against the publisher from the manufacturers who first printed the recipes. Some of the recipes, it was pointed out Kate had changed the name or one ingredient in them.
I received a personal response from Zondervan not a canned response like you get from TLC telling me that they had NO plans to publish another book by Kate.
I continue to e-mail TLC nearly every day and I receive the same canned response. I don’t even think that they read our e-mails and they all get the same response and are put in the circular file without even reading them.
I was encouraged with the articles written on Kate’s appearance at the Women’s Conference with Maria Shriver. It appeared that the conference didn’t want to raise the notoriety or perhaps bad press by emphasizing Kate by “de-inviting” her. They instead deleted her from the list of 22 authors who came to sell and sign their books. She was interviewed by Gisella Fernandez for less than four minutes. Thirty minutes had been allocated for three authors including Kate. So few people came by to have Kate sign her books that she was filmed sitting with her PR people twiddling a pen. She was supposed to sign for an hour and left after half an hour. I really don’t think that Kate got the good publicity and bounce to her popularity that she had hoped for and that the negative articles did her more harm than good.
Kate is like a vampire, she will continue to retool herself and her image and will only be stopped by a stake through her heart. The stake would be our making an even more concerted effort to ignore Kate and not watch any future shows or reruns. If we don’t watch her, sponsorship will dry up and her day in the limelight will go down for good. If we weaken, then Kate will continue to rise from the ashes like the legendary Phoenix.