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I took it to mean the author, James Grippando, was saying that many of his fiction books were born from bad experiences aka "inconveniences", and so was his fiction book about Baez and FCA. The "inconvienience" happened when boycotters made an uproar over Grippando's book agent, Richard Pine of InkWell Management, talking to Baez about a book deal, and Grippando's agent Richard Pine, backed out of Grippando's collaberation with Baez on a NON-fiction book about FCA and Baez. Then Grippando's fiction book "Blood Money" was born.
http://rgazala.blogspot.com/2013/01/author-spotlight-james-grippando-returns.html
excerpt:
Gazala: What is the most surprising occupational hazard to being a novelist?
Grippando: Personal safety. I used to think you had to be a megastar like Salman Rushdie or Steven King to worry about such things, but thats naïve. I want to be accessible to my readers, but there is risk in putting yourself out there. The good news is that each time Ive had a bad experience, Ive worked it into a book. My scare with a heckler at a bookstore became a scene in Lying with Strangers. When my identity was stolen (in part because so much info about me is publicly available), I used that experience in Money to Burn. And my most recent book, Blood Money, also grew out of one of these, shall we say, inconveniences. In the summer of 2010 I was wondering which way to go with my next work, and my agent called.
I want you to talk to Jose Baez, he said.
There was a hint of excitement in Richards voice, and I could tell that he wanted me to be just as excited. I disappointed him. I feel like Im supposed to know the name, I said, but I dont.
Yes, you do, said Richard. Hes Casey Anthonys lawyer.
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"The backlash was overwhelming. Bloggers posted the agencys contact information, urging readers to clog phone lines and e-mail boxes with a simple message: NO WAY JOSE. Simon & Schuster's Facebook page was hacked based purely on rumors (untrue) that the publisher was to sign a book deal with Anthony. In Oklahomatwelve hundred miles from the Orlando courthousetwenty-six year old Sammay Blackwell was run off the road and almost killed by a woman who thought Ms. Blackwell was Casey Anthony. I quickly realized that the book I wanted to write wasnt a nonfiction account of a trial that was already overexposed. The storymy novelwas in the phenomenon that turns certain law-abiding citizens into vigilantes who will accept nothing but their own sense of justice.
