The ghostwriter behind Courtney Love's delayed autobiography is suing the performer for more payment for the unfinished project. The Girl With The Most Cake was due to be released as dearly as 2013 but the Hole vocalist described it as a "nightmare" and a "disaster."
Nonetheless, Rolling Stone writer Anthony Bozza is seeking a higher cut of the "earnings" from the project. He filed a lawsuit in the New York federal district court looking for $200,000 for his work. The Guardian notes that the ghostwriter was already paid $100,000 for his work, but he claims he was promised more. Whether or not any of this can be confirmed by contractual documentation has not been reported.
NME notes that, when converted to the British currency standard, Bozza is seeking more than one pound-per-word...£130,000 for 123,375 words. Part of the writer's logic is that Love has already received $400,000 of the $1.2 million advance from the William Morrow publishing company.
Perhaps as a way of helping his cause, Bozza claims during the lawsuit that Love made writing the memoir a difficult experience, citing a multitude of unexplained absences over periods of months, while Love herself had previously reported that the subject-writer relationship with Bozza was "just not working," implying that he was prying too much into her life post-2006, a subject she wasn't willing to cover for the purpose of The Girl With Too Much Cake. Again, there's no word on what William Morrow had planned...whether her more modern life and times were to be discussed...so Love may have just been a frustrating subject to cover.
William Morrow has yet to legally seek a publication date from Love.
