Dear newbie nemo,
Welcome! Do stay with us ... I hope my post did not make you cry. I was smiling when I wrote it. Perhaps we both should have used a face?
You raise a good point though about the apparent rush by publishers to cash in on names with a certain currrency.
Only time will tell if, within these authors, talent lurks for the written word.
Reminds me of the movie "Finding Forrester:" The young writer asks Forrester :
"Will women sleep with me if I write a good book."
Forrester (Sean Connery) "Women will sleep with you if you write a BAD book."
Maybe Miss Spears' love life need a kick start?