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"It's good, but we can't market it. If you were already famous in some other way so we could sell based on that, we would buy it."
Could have phrased it better, but I kinda get it.
"It's good, but we're bad at actually selling books so we need you to be famous in another unrelated way to compensate for our incompetence"
FTFY
No you didn't. People don't buy the memoirs of random people. The publisher can move heaven and Earth but people still wouldn't change the fact that the audience will never exist
Remember Oprah and a million little pieces. I'm pretty sure that guy was a complete unknown before he made that shit up.