No Ghostwriter for Katie Couric

Posted on October 18, 2004

In an interview with USA Today, Katie Couric talks about her new children's book, The Blue Ribbon Day (Doubleday), on sale this week, a sequel to her 2000 bestseller, The Brand New Kid.

Couric wrote the book in verse, which she said was "fun, not work. I enjoy writing little ditties. ... A book is tangible, not like an interview that goes off into the stratosphere."

She also expressed embarrassment at being one of the many celebs who are writing children's books these days. But at least she writes her books herself. One day she says she'll write a memoir -- without the use of a ghostwriter.

Her father is a retired newspaperman and she promised to write it all herself. "He said, 'No journalist worth his or her salt should have a co-author.'"