Apparently Right, who turns out to be Mr. The basic story is reliably familiar: girl falls for Mr. The book produced by "this great serendipitous moment" (as Gore described it) is a little better than its command-economy lineage might suggest, though such circumstances do set the bar awfully low. Three weeks later, they found their author: Kristin Gore, then 26, whose prior professional writing experience included stints at "Saturday Night Live" and the Fox animated show "Futurama." At a reception for the nonprofit where Gore's sister works, the wealthy culture baron and the well-connected offspring of a political dynasty had a conversation that seems more the stuff of fiction than its source: "What I really, really want to do is write a novel," said Ms. via BlackBerry and organizing think-tank happy hours as mock "departmental summits." According to an account in The New York Times, the film producer/force of nature Harvey Weinstein and Jonathan Burnham, the editor in chief of Miramax Books, decided to publish a chick-lit novel set in Washington. This comic romance novel by Al Gore's daughter Kristin appears to be the product of poll testing and market research - fitting enough in a town, Washington, where people treat their social lives like a political campaign, sending out drunken calls for company at 2 a.m.
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