[canuck_conservative]

Here's a working title:

"How I Conned Simon & Shuster for $8 Million"

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I don't think she got the entire $8 million as an advance. The publisher is obviously looking at the $2 or $3 million "up front" money as a sunk cost and wants to avoid throwing good money after bad.
It'd be great if she had to give it back, tho.