Ron Jeremy turns best-selling author.
Jeremy was at BEA for his book, Hardest (Working) Man in Show Business, now in paperback, which “didn’t get a single bad review,” and, he frequently reminded us, is a best seller. “Call me anything on the planet but you have to add on ‘and … a best-selling author,’” he said, insisting it’ll be in his obituary. “‘He was this, this, this, this, a lot of dick jokes, now he’s really stiff, and best-selling author.’”
That epithet was so important to him that he didn’t do promotions in Larry Flynt’s shops, which don’t track sales. “I’ve gotta say this, publishing’s a very hard business to understand, even more than adult movies. Porn was famous years ago for not keeping accurate accounts of how tickets are selling. This reminds you of that. You can only tell how a book is doing by comparison to others.” He and Jenna Jamison have a friendly book-selling rivalry. “She beat me in America, but I beat her in Europe and Asia and Scandinavia,” and this despite the fact he feels he got shafted on his co-writer. “She gets Neil Strauss, and I get Eric Spitznagel. He got a lot of stuff wrong. We were delayed by one year, the things he got wrong.”
