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Amanda Knox Scores $4M Book Deal

HarperCollins snags rights after auction

(Newser) - After a days-long bidding war, HarperCollins has obtained the rights to Amanda Knox's memoir in a $4 million deal, insiders tell the New York Times . Divisions of Random House, Macmillan, Simon & Schuster, and Penguin all reportedly bid on the book, which Knox says will be based in part...

Amanda Knox Scores Obama's Book Agent

High-powered DC lawyer Robert Barnett to broker top deal

(Newser) - Major book deals are in the works for both defendants in the sensational Meredith Kercher murder trial. Amanda Knox has hired Washington, DC-based lawyer Robert Barnett to broker possible deals, Reuters reports. Barnett has represented President Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and many other big names from the worlds...

Pippa Signs Six-Figure Book Deal

And we're sure her royal connections have nothing to do with it

(Newser) - When do you get paid six figures to write a party planning book? When you’re Pippa Middleton, of course. Her Royal Hotness has officially signed a book deal worth more than $620,000 to write the guide, which will be out by next Christmas, the Telegraph reports. She was...

Assange 'Forced' to Take $1.5M Book Deal

Because he's got some legal bills

(Newser) - The world's favorite rogue publisher has landed himself a book deal, but not because he wanted to. Infamous WikiLeaker Julian Assange will pen his memoirs for a reputed $1.5 million, reports the Australian, but he's doing it not for ego, but money. "I don't want to write this...

Snooki's Book Deal: Jersey Shore's Nicole Polizzi Writing Novel
 Snooki Snags Book Deal 
sure to be a classic
Sep 30, 2010 8:47 AM CDT

Snooki Snags Book Deal

Soon, all the Jersey Shore guidos and guidettes will be authors

(Newser) - With poetic tweets like “your going to the yacht party?! Holla! See you lataa,” who wouldn’t expect Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi to write a book? Yep, Snooks is the latest Jersey Shore cast member to get a book deal, the AP reports. Hers will be Shore Thing,...

Betty White Gets 2-Book Deal

She'll write a memoir, and a book about the zoo

(Newser) - Betty White has struck a deal to write two books for GP Putnam's Sons, USA Today reports. The first will be a memoir of sorts titled Listen Up!, focusing on lessons from her Hollywood career, growing old, sex, and more. The second is The Zoo and I: Betty and Her ...

Sonia Sotomayor to Publish Memoir

Knopf to publish coming-of-age 'tale of triumph'

(Newser) - Knopf will publish "a coming-of-age memoir by an American daughter of Puerto Rican immigrants" who "has lived a remarkable life." The author? Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, whose as yet-untitled book will show a "triumph of the Latino experience in America," the publisher tell the...

Tyra to Slam Other Models in Bizarre Books

 Tyra to Slam 
 Other Models 
 in Bizarre 
 Books 
ASPIRING SCRIBES
May 12, 2010 8:36 AM CDT

Tyra to Slam Other Models in Bizarre Books

Janice Dickinson may not want to read 'Modelland' books

(Newser) - Tyra Banks is already famous, which is probably how she managed to score a book deal for a tween series about models called “Intoxibellas” who rule over “Modelland” with their superpowers and have “edgy, sexy, exciting adventures.” Just in case the idea of a Top Model-meets-Harry ...

Susan Boyle Lands Deal for Autobiography

'The Woman I Was Born to Be' will be out in the fall

(Newser) - Susan Boyle is out to conquer a new medium. The Scottish singer is working on an autobiography to be published in the fall, reports the BBC . The Woman I Was Born to Be will chronicle her unlikely rise to fame after she appeared on Britain's Got Talent, with the main...

5 Funny Family Blogs That Made Good

Maybe your embarrassing parents can help you land a TV deal

(Newser) - Easter and Passover are coming up, which means more embarrassing incidents at family get-together, plus a silver lining: You could potentially score a book deal. Chris Mathias, writing for Nerve , lists five blogs based on “familial eccentricities” that have scored their creators some cash—or at least some popularity:...

Jersey Shore Gets a Book Deal
 Jersey Shore Gets a Book Deal 
inevitability dept
Mar 24, 2010 9:52 AM CDT

Jersey Shore Gets a Book Deal

Sadly, Snooki's not writing it

(Newser) - Not only is Jersey Shore returning to your TV, it’s now hitting your bookshelf as well. Jwoww and Ronnie (“two of the more bland cast members,” notes Josh Duboff in New York ) signed a deal to write a guide to their (questionably desirable) lifestyle. Just dying...

Scott Brown Memoir Set for 2011

Massachusetts senator's book deal announced

(Newser) - Scott Brown’s inevitable book deal is in place. The Massachusetts senator’s memoir will be published by HarperCollins in early 2011, the AP reports. "I am humbled to have the opportunity to share my personal story in hopes to inform, encourage and inspire others," says Brown in...

Scott Brown Writing Memoir
 Scott Brown Writing Memoir 
Feb 10, 2010 11:32 AM CST

Scott Brown Writing Memoir

New senator will write inspirational book with collaborator

(Newser) - Republican golden boy Scott Brown plans to add another job title to his resume: author. The newly minted senator from Massachusetts has a book deal, pending approval by the Senate Ethics Committee. “He will tell his story in a book in hopes of providing insight and encouragement to others,...

Going Rogue Sells 1M Copies

HarperCollins moves to print 300K more copies

(Newser) - Going Rogue has gone platinum. A HarperCollins spokeswoman said today that just two weeks after publication, Sarah Palin's memoir has sold 1 million copies. The print run for Going Rogue has been increased again, to 2.8 million copies. The original printing was 1.5 million, then moved up to...

'Shit My Dad Says' Heads to TV
 'Shit My 
 Dad Says' 
 Heads to TV 
TWITTER TAKEOVER
Nov 10, 2009 11:21 AM CST

'Shit My Dad Says' Heads to TV

Son's lucrative exploitation also includes book deal

(Newser) - Move over, Al Bundy: A project based @shitmydadsays, the Twitter feed engineered by the son of a cantankerous father, has been picked up by CBS. The creators of Will and Grace are on board as executive producers, with that selfsame transcriber of a son taking writing duties. The microblog’s...

Obama's Half Bro Says Dad Beat Him, Mom
Obama's Half Bro Says Dad Beat Him, Mom
Interview
Nov 4, 2009 1:24 PM CST

Obama's Half Bro Says Dad Beat Him, Mom

Autobiographical novel details abuse, doesn't mention president

(Newser) - For Mark Ndesandjo, Barack Obama is something of a monster. Not the president, but their father, Barack Obama Sr. Ndesandjo, full name Mark Odoth Obama Ndesandjo, has just released an autobiographical novel depicting the Obama patriarch as a brilliant-but-violent drunk who beat him and his Jewish-American mother, and while some...

Victoria Gotti Spills Mob Secrets in Tell-All Book

Author describes ritual that 'made' Junior

(Newser) - Victoria Gotti insists she doesn’t condone crime. But in her new tell-all book, The Family of Mine, Mafia don John Gotti's daughter compares mobsters to Robin Hood and his merry men, claims they’re better than corrupt politicians, and says she sees no difference between paying into a protection...

Edwards Aide's Tell-All Finds Publisher

Ex-aide Andrew Young's book expected to expose cover-up, reveal Edwards' paternity

(Newser) - If John Edwards wants to cop to fathering Rielle Hunter’s baby on his own terms, he’d better act quickly. Former aide Andrew Young—who took Edwards' fall as babydaddy—will have his tell-all published by St. Martin’s Press in wake of a prominent New York Times story...

Jenny Sanford to Pen 'Inspirational Memoir'

Ballantine Books won't disclose fee for May 2010 release

(Newser) - Jenny Sanford will write an “inspirational memoir” to be released by Random House next spring, CNN reports. The publisher is mum on how much the estranged wife of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford will get for her trouble. The fairer half of the couple has been fairly tight-lipped since...

Twitter Makes Dad a Star, Son Fields Book Deals

(Newser) - The delightfully profane dad who's the unwitting star of the August Twitter sensation "shitmydadsays," where his recently-moved-back-home son posts his cranky rants about making messes and dodging chores, may not be quite as clueless as he's been made out to be. Sam Halperin is actually a 73-year-old with...

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