Okay, so we all enjoy a good scandal book to one degree or another. But will disgraced New York Times reporter Jayson Blair make his fortune on a tell-all book? “The success of a mea culpa manuscript is as much a case of where as of who, how, or when. ‘A story about someone who’s been in a scandal or any sort of bad experience of whatever kind, for it to be an effective story the person has to have come out on the other side. The problem with Jayson Blair, he’s still right in the middle of whatever he’s going through. Clearly, he’s thrashing around. To be an effective story, a book has to have a post-thrash perspective.”