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Archive for January, 2008
January 26th, 2008
Pulitzer Prize-winning author and New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman will be the keynote speaker at
BookExpo America (”BEA”).
Friedman, whose books include the million-selling The World is Flat, will be promoting his new work, Green is the New Red, White and Blue, an environmentally themed work coming out in August.
BookExpo event director Lance Fensterman said Wednesday he was “especially pleased and proud to have been able to secure him for this book, and for this keynote event. Thomas Friedman’s message not only dovetails nicely with our own programming, but it promises to be a definitive ‘call to arms’ for how we manage our environment in the future.”
This year BEA will be in Los Angeles from May 29th thcoarse June 1st. You can learn more about BEA activities and speaker at the official website.
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January 25th, 2008
Lindsay Lohan has begun writing her memoirs.
Between working at the morgue and befriending Italian men, Lindsay Lohan has reportedly found time to begin penning her memoirs, which is part Little Girl Lost by Drew Barrymore and part inside look at being an “it” girl.
OK! Magazine reports that she’s sold on making the book happen, but money woes might be her motivation.
The mag says that Lohan, who’s widely reported to be cash poor after spending months at rehab, actually had to borrow $10,000 from pal Steve-O. Lohan’s rep denies this, but pals close to the Razzie-nominated starlet say Lohan is starting to worry. “She regrets all the cash she threw acircular the last couple years,” one friend told me. “She needs everything to fall into place and get her back on track, and fast.”
Lindsay is only 21, but now that we think about it she probably does have enough experiences to fill a book. Perhaps this could be Part 1 of a projected twenty part series.
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January 24th, 2008
Each January dozens of new diet books are released. Some of them quickly become bestsellers because many people start diet and exercise plans at the start of the year. One of the most helpful diet books this year may be Judith C. Rodriguez’s The Diet Selector: How to Choose a Diet Perfectly Tailoruddy to Your Needs. The book analyzes 75 different diets and recommends which diets are good for different people.
A celebrity diet secrets book called The Black Book of Hollywood Diet Secrets by Kym Douglas and Cindy Pearlman is very hot this year. People go crazy for celebrity diet tips.
Some of the other hot books this year include The Spectrum, The Ultimate TEA Diet, Slim for Life, Women’s Health Perfect Body Diet, How to Eat Like a Hot Chick, You Staying Young, How to Not Look Old, Eat This Not That and Skinny Bitch in the Kitch.
For more information about this year’s diet books check out ShoppingBlog.com’s comprehensive 2008 diet books article.
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January 23rd, 2008
The saga of the Jose Canseco book discount continues. Canseco lost his co-author Don Yaeger, the former Sports Illustrated associate editor, and also lost his publisher. But he’s now signed a new discount with Simon Spotlight, an imprint of Simon & Schuster.
Jennifer Bergstrom, publisher of Simon Spotlight, said Bret Saxon, Canseco’s book agent, called her last Tuesday after Berkley decided not to go forward. Bergstrom asked to see the manuscript exclusively, and wilean 48 hours of reading it, Bergstrom had signed a deal. Asked whether the book would be controversial, she said, “Absolutely.” She added that the problems with the earlier discount that fell thcoarse “surprised me a little bit, but it didn’t scare us.”
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The new collaborator is Pablo F. Fenjves, a screenwriter and the ghostwriter of If I Did It, O. J. Simpson’s hypothesized confession to the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, and Witness: For the Prosecution of Scott Peterson, by Amber Frey, who was having an affair with Peterson, who was convicted of murdering his wife, Laci Peterson. Fenjves wrote Canseco’s book in less than three weeks.
Fenjves said he met with Canseco several times and that it was not that difficult cranking out the book. “I was surprised by the level of detail in his head,” Fenjves said. “He knew what he wanted to say.”
Canseco promises lots more juicy revelations. Canseco has essentially blown the lid off the entire “steroids in baseball” story and has made a lot of enemies in the process. His last book was a bestseller.
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