After all, it’s not about conspiracy, it’s about connections. And the Hachette Book Group is counting on what it feels is a fact, not fiction, that's there's money to be made off the Madoffs.
In July of 2011, an unnamed source at the parent company of Little, Brown and Company - Hachette Book Group – informed me that an internal database listed a pair of authors, for the "uncorrected advance proofs" of a manuscript with the working title of Untitled By Anonymous, Laurie Sandell and Catherine Hooper. Uncorrected advance proofs is publishing patois for the bound prepublication rendering of a book before its first hardcover or trade paperback printing.
Catherine Hooper has been quite the press item herself, mostly because she’s made no secret of her engagement to Andrew Madoff, the surviving son of super swindler Bernie Madoff and the brother of Mark Madoff, who took his own life in 2010 rather than live it out under a black umbrella of scorn.