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Fox News Books Gives Fox News Authors a Path to the Best-Seller List

NYT > Business > Media · Alexandra Alter and Elizabeth A. Harris · last updated

One of this fall’s breakout debut novelists isn’t a romance writer or a recent graduate from a prestigious M.F.A. program. It’s Trey Gowdy, a former Republican Congressman and current Fox News host, whose crime novel, “The Color of Death,” debuted at No. 2 on the New York Times best-seller list.

Gowdy says he can’t take too much credit for the book’s success, however. That’s the work of his publisher: Fox News Books.

Fox News Books has found tremendous success capitalizing on the popularity of Fox personalities and the loyalty of its viewers. Most of its books are not expressly political, but they align with the network’s conservative bent.

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