The Hill's Open Secrets column has Ghost story: Clinton’s book raises question:
Her long-awaited White House book, Living History, won’t be in stores for another month, but there’s already speculation about how much writing help Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) got from her two "assistants," author Maryanne Vollers and former Washington Post reporter Lissa Muscatine.That Hillary is real warm.
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But the pair could hardly fare any worse than Clinton’s collaborator on It Takes a Village, Barbara Feinman Todd.
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Her contract to help Clinton with It Takes a Village called for an expression of thanks and a payment of $120,000.
All went well until just before the book was published, when Todd learned her name didn’t appear in the acknowledgements. Then she began hearing talk that she’d been fired from the project, which was untrue. Later, when it was time to collect the final $30,000 installment of her collaboration fee, she was told the White House didn’t want her to be paid.
A few phone calls to Simon & Schuster from powerful Washington friends, including the Post’s Bob Woodward, one of her clients, finally got Todd a check for her work. The publisher also agreed to pay her Clinton-related legal bills.
Afterward, said Todd, she continued receiving Christmas cards from the Clintons but her name was always misspelled.
And clearly doesn't need a copy of Getting in Touch With Your Inner Bitch.
