Crown's least favorite jewel: Opal

Not that we know that much about publishing, but it is grimly fascinating to watch a wunderkind twist in the wind. Indeed, it smells more and more like a set up:

To this end, The New York Times offers two articles, one today, one for tomorrow, each more bizarre than the next.

The first, a peek at how teen chick lit gets fashioned – created would be too strong a word – by “book packagers” like Alloy Entertainment Hint: It’s even more incestuous than Hollywood:

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“…the incident opens a window onto a powerful company with lucrative, if tangled, relationships within the publishing industry that might take fans of series like ‘The It Girl’ by surprise…The relationships between Alloy and the publishers are so intertwined that the same editor, Claudia Gabel, is thanked on the acknowledgments pages of both Ms.

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