How to write a bestseller and make a lot of money!!!

You could ask Liza Marklund, swedish authour with books translated to several different languages. I think her response will be:

Find a phycologically vulnerable person whom you can exploit in order to use her “story” as a true-story-fiction. Any theme possible, this time it was about a beaten woman who had to escape from the country (hello, we’re talking Sweden-there’s a social system for christ’s sake). Then proclaim yourself to be the “Messiah” of battered women, get sympathies and draw media’s attention towards you.  And there you go…..

The story of Marklund is a story of a swedish authour with mediocre talents when it comes to writing fiction who ends up being desperate. She could never have succeded if it hadn’t been for her so-called involvement in the fight for battered women.  And yeah, her “true-story”-bestseller…

Thanks to another swedish reporter; Monica Antonsson (search google, she recently published book and has a blog open, only in swedish but perhaps that might change if she gets some international feed-back), the delibarate exaggerations and twists Marklund created has been brought to light.  And what we are left with is a father who has lost his daughter to a paranoid mother (who is probably mentally ill) and a reporter who does nothing to intervene but on the contrary add to the paranoia by acknowledging the existence of a menace. Now, how sick isn’t that?

So, to all you people who comes across a “Liza Marklund” book on the shelf, put it in the garbage where it belongs.  It might sound a bit harsh, but I am seriously disappointed because I read the story and I thought it had to be true since there was a serious reporter with a publishing house confirming the story…. In swedish it’s called “Gömda” which means “hidden”… Now it is Marklund who has gone hiding in Spain, refusing to talk to the media…

Well,  good night wherever you are