Aaron Carter Memoir Writer Delays Launch ‘Out of Respect’ – Billboard

Ballast Books is suspending the discharge date of its deliberate Aaron Carter memoir, Aaron Carter: An Incomplete Story of an Incomplete Life, following the singer’s loss of life.

The choice was made, in accordance with Scott Atherton, Atherton Galardi Mullen & Reeder PLLC founder and rep for each the writer and the memoir’s co-writer, Andy Symonds, “out of respect for the Carter household.”

“My shopper has determined to defer the additional launch of the e-book at the moment,” Atherton mentioned in a press release. “Mr. Carter was not only a superstar but in addition a father, a brother, a son and a buddy to many nonetheless grieving for him.”

A brand new date was not given for the unfinished memoir, which was beforehand set to be launched Nov. 15, in accordance with the writer. The delay follows a press release from Carter’s rep denying the singer was concerned or wished the title to be revealed.

“Aaron, within the midst of [working on the book], mentioned, ‘I would like nothing to do with this’ and stopped, so the truth that the writer is saying it’s greenlit, it’s not,” a rep for Carter advised Web page Six. “That’s towards Aaron’s needs.”

As a part of the delay announcement, Atherton asserted in a press release that “Aaron Carter wished his story advised.”

“And he wished our shopper, Andy Symonds, a well-respected journalist and writer, to inform that story with all its magnificence and rawness,” the assertion continued. “Public consideration has not too long ago centered on a small variety of interactions throughout Mr. Carter’s early years. The extra essential story is about Mr. Carter’s life and what folks can study from his skilled success, private struggles and tragic passing.”

Symonds had labored with Carter on the memoir for 3 years, in accordance with a Nov. 9 launch saying the publication of the unfinished e-book.

In a separate assertion beforehand given to Billboard, the late singer’s administration referred to as the choice to launch the “unauthorized” memoir posthumously “obscenely disrespectful.”

“Within the few quick days following our expensive buddy’s passing we now have been making an attempt to grieve and course of whereas concurrently having to take care of obscenely disrespectful and unauthorized releases,” Carter’s crew mentioned. “It is a time for mourning and reflection not heartless cash grabs and a focus in search of.”

The Hollywood Reporter has reached out to a rep for Carter.

The singer and brother of Backstreet Boys member Nick Carter was discovered useless on the age of 34 in his Lancaster, California, residence on Nov. 5 with no reason behind loss of life given on the time.

This text initially appeared on The Hollywood Reporter.