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Bogus Life Story Casting Doubt on Memoirs Like the fake memoirs before it, the revelation about Margaret Seltzer's fabricated gang life memoir is sending shockwaves through the publishing world. Gilda Squire is the former director of publicity at Amistad books. She knows plenty about wrangling a memoir through the vetting process.

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Bogus Life Story Casting Doubt on Memoirs

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Like the fake memoirs before it, the revelation about Margaret Seltzer's fabricated gang life memoir is sending shockwaves through the publishing world.

Gilda Squire is the former director of publicity at Amistad books, the African-American imprint of HarperCollins Publishing.

She now owns Gilda Squire Media Relations and knows plenty about wrangling a memoir through the vetting process.