Coming Attractions: Barbara Walters to Hit News Cycle
Look for major media with the release of Barbara Walters' book AUDITION
on Tuesday, including an Oprah Winfrey feature airing that day. In a
transcript from that show given to the AP, they report that "after
three decades of keeping mum, Barbara Walters is disclosing a past
affair with married US Senator Edward Brooke.
She explains to an interviewer at the Hartford Courant why she wrote
the book after previous delays: "Either don't do it at all, or tell
all. I was sidetracked for a while, but once I sat down to do it, I
knew the kind of book it was going to be — very, very
personal. I thought it was important to tell the story of my sister,
her disability, and about my relationship with my daughter. I thought
this would be helpful to parents."
Hailing Hay
This Sunday's NYT Magazine profiles Louise Hay: "Hay is one of the
bestselling authors in history, and none of the women who have sold
more — like J. K. Rowling, Danielle Steel and Barbara
Cartland — owned a publishing empire. They did not change the
spiritual landscape of America and several of its Western allies. They
were not pregnant at 15 and they did not lack high-school diplomas.
Finer writers they may have been (depending on your taste), and
wealthier women, but it would be hard to argue that any was more
interesting than Louise Hay."
Founded in 1987, last year Hay House, which she owns jointly with
company president Reid Tracy, 45 (who has a 35 percent stake), "sold
6.3 million products, taking in $100 million, 8 percent of which was
profit."
As for Tracy's contribution, "in a field crowded with visionaries (and
intuitives, psychics and angel therapists), Tracy has a strong claim to
true clairvoyance. He realized more than 10 years ago that much of the
money in New Age was to be made in items other than books: in card
decks, audio tapes and page-a-day calendars. Major authors like Wayne
Dyer and Marianne Williamson, who first came to Hay House just for
ancillary products, later abandoned big trade houses to also do their
books with Hay House. Each product helps drive sales for the other
products, making Hay House authors less dependent than most on the
whims of book-review editors and the buyers for megastores."
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