Jordan Causes Shock After Kids Book Award Nomination

Mar 23 2008 By Steve Dinneen

JORDAN has caused a storm as a surprise nominee at the British Book Awards.

The former model, whose real name is Katie Price, has been nominated for her first novel - Katie Price's Perfect Ponies, MyPony Care Book.

But industry insiders and fellow authors are seething after reports Price wrote little of the book herself.

Much of it was ghost written by other authors and her publishers say it is impossible to quantify how muchof the book is hers.

The Society of Authors have received a flood of complaints about the nomination for the awards, nicknamed the Nibbies.

Chocolat author Joanne Harris, who now writes children's books, said: "This book winning would be depressing beyond anything.

"If this is an award for people who write books, it should be open only to people who write books, not somebody who lends their name to a book or who would have written a book if they had time but didn't."

Mark Booth, Price's publishing director at Century, said: "People say she doesn't write them - I don't see what the fuss is.

"It's no different to the way the recordings of the The Monkees were put together."