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By her appearance, Christina “Tinx” the beginnings of Najjar’s fiction, Hot in Hamptons,, is guaranteed to be a SMASH success. On the shelves on May 8, the novel by Bisexual Romance follows a “IT” girl from New York who fled to the Hamptons after a withered cultural criticism destroyed her reputation – only to discover that his new neighbor in the Hamptons is said to be a cultural critic. A love affair follows.
It is a juicy vanity, and the personality of the 34 -year -old social media, which built a brand of several million dollars as “Tiktok’s older sister”, has many promotional tools at its disposal. She has millions of followers, a pop culture podcast and a Siriusxm radio program. She’s already New York Times Successful author for the 2022 self-assistance book Change: change your perspective, not yourself. In February, Hot in Hamptons was optionized for TV by 20th TV with Nobody wants that The producer duo Sara and Erin Foster had to adapt it.
Now the drama is preparing around the exit. Thursday, the writer and the doctorate. Student Maalvika Bhat published a Tiktok Exposing Tinx for having used a screenwriter, novelist and old Nylon Editor -in -chief Gabrielle Korn. (Hot in Hamptons is listed on the Korn website under “handwritten services”.) “What does he say about the world of publishing when identity is only marketable when it is filtered by an already profitable person?” Asked Bhat, taking into account that Tinx, who is straight, tries to pass a queer novel written by a queer ghost like his. Other Tiktors met to agree, and the debate has made its way to Reddit.
Tinx commented on the video: “Of course, I hired an employee who is queer … I am not a lesbian. I wanted to nail this part of the scenario. It is not a secret, it is the first person that I thank in the thanks!” Bhat responded with receipts, sharing a transcription of a podcast on which Tinx said that she had not used a ghost for the novel. “I seriously ask, if queerness is not your lived experience and you need a queer screenwriter to capture the nuances of intimacy and joy and queer identity, why not amplify the writer?” Bhat questioned.
It is standard for famous people to command ghost writers to help write memories – less fiction, although it is not unprecedented. (Remember when Kendall and Kylie Jenner “wrote” a book Ya?) A vanity project like Hot in Hamptons is only moderately convincing as an overview of Tinx herself – her humor, her sensitivity. Tinx, it must be said, a graduate of Stanford, where she studied English literature and creative writing. Surely, she could have written the book. (And why not make it a heterosexual romance? These are also sold.) If anything, this whole saga is just a little embarrassing.
The cut has contacted Tinx and Korn for comments and will update this message if we receive an answer.
