Quote - The difference between this woman and James Frey is that James Frey got his hands on the big-time money before his lie became public knowledge.  This woman's lie was revealed too early in the game for her to make a full financial killing directly off of it.

The other difference is that at least his story was partially true. He did embellish parts to make it more compelling, but the story essentially was his life. However, this woman fabricated the entire thing and even hired people to act the part of characters in her story in order to pass a complete fictionalized story off as a true fact of her life.

According to that last article linked to, 19,000 copies of the book that were being shipped to stores have been recalled.

I wonder if the publisher is going to sue her in order to recover the money they advanced her.  They are entirely within their right to do so giving the fact that she lied and defrauded them.

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi