Disgraced politician John Edwards is about to get hit with a tell all book by his former aide, Andrew Young. Young pretended to be the father of John Edwards’ love child with Rielle Hunter, but now he’s not covering for Edwards anymore.

A man who was one of former Senator John Edwards’s closest aides has a discount to write a book claiming that Mr. Edwards said he “would be taken care of for life” in return for falsely claiming he was the father of the baby carried by Mr. Edwards’s mistress, Rielle Hunter.



The aide, Andrew Young, sold his book proposal to St. Martin’s Press for an undisclosed price late last week. In his proposal, Mr. Young quotes Mr. Edwards, a Democrat who was his party’s vice-presidential nominee in 2004 and ran for president last year, as begging him to confess to fathering Ms. Hunter’s baby.


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Federal prosecutors are investigating whether any of Mr. Edwards’s campaign money was improperly used with regard to his affair or efforts to keep it from becoming public. Mr. Young wrote that he had been questioned by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and had been subpoenaed to speak before a grand jury.


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Mr. Edwards denied being the father after admitting the affair last summer, and there is yet to be DNA testing. A spokeswoman for Mr. Edwards’s legal team, Joyce Fitzpatrick, said Mr. Edwards had not seen the book proposal, and she would not comment on it. A lawyer for Ms. Hunter, Robert J. Gordon, said he no longer represented her.



Mr. Young’s proposal states that he was writing the book because he had become disillusioned with Mr. Edwards’s behavior and recklessness, which he said included participating in the production of a sex tape with Ms. Hunter that Mr. Young later discovered.

Yes, that’s right. There’s a John Edwards sex tape floating around. All we can say is….ewwwwww.



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People reports that Slumdog Millionaire star Rubina Ali has a book coming out that tells the story of her life so far. She’s only nine but she has experienced two very different worlds: the slums of Mumbai and Hollywood.

July 16 will find her book, Slumdog Dreaming, simulatenously released in the U.S. and U.K. Publisher Transworld, says, besides recounting Oscar night, Ali will tell her story of “playing marbles with her friends beside the sewers of Garib Nagar in Mumbai, to dancing along to the Bollywood films she and her family watch on their old television set.



“Rubina brings alive a world of wastelands and rat-infested shanty dwellings, and shows us her home, a wooden shack with a tarpaulin roof, where she grew up with her beloved father and siblings,” says the statement.

The People article says Slumdog Dreaming hits stores in the U.S. and U.K. on July 16th. However, the Amazon.com listing says September 8th, so it may have been pushed back.



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Kate Gosselin has a book scheduled for release in October called Love Is in the Mix: Making Meals into Memories. While the book is up for pre-order on Amazon.com it may not be published as scheduled now that the Gosselin’s have filed for divorce. USA Today reports that Zondervan’s CEO says they are going to work with Kate Gosselin to “reassess the schedule for her next book.”

Maureen “Moe” Girkins, CEO of Zondervan, said the company, a division of News Corp.’s HarperCollins publishing company, was going to “work with Kate to reassess the schedule for her next book.”



“We are saddened by this news from the Gosselins and will continue to lift both Jon and Kate and their children up in prayer. We respect their need for time to focus on their family during this difficult time.”



The Gosselins announced a separation Monday (June 22) during an episode of their popular TLC network show. They later issued a statement saying divorce papers had been filed. The show is on hiatus until Aug. 8

If this book doesn’t work there are likely to be other opportunities for Kate Gosselin to tell her story, especially with the enormous quantity of press she has gotten recently.



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Siobhan Dowd has posthumously won
The Carnegie Medalm, the most prestigious prize in children’s literature, for her book, Bog Child.
Siobhan recently died after a battle with cancer.

Bog Child, the story of a teenage boy who finds the body of a child in an Irish bog, was finished by Dowd in May 2007. She died of cancer that August at the age of 47, having only turned to writing in 2003. In just four brief years, she penned four children’s books: her first, A Swift Pure Cry, was also shortlisted for the Carnegie.



“It’s infuriating that she didn’t start writing earlier, that she couldn’t go on. We’ve lost one of our awesome new voices, and they don’t come along that often, not at Siobhan’s standards,” said her publisher and editor, David Fickling, who accepted the Carnegie medal on her behalf this lunchtime. “Bog Child was written with awesome intensity, when Siobhan was at the height of her powers, all the while being very ill … You get to the end and are uplifted, and that’s what she was like in person, too. She buoyed you up.”



The book is “an absolutely astonishing piece of writing”, said the librarian Joy Court, chair of the judging panel (the Carnegie medal winner is selected by 13 librarians from acircular the UK). “To be able to write like that when she was going thcoarse what she was going thcoarse is just astonishing - the sheer beauty of the language, the descriptions of the environment; she has such an amazing sense of place.”



Bog Child intertwines two stories: that of the 16-year-old Fergus, who discovers the child in the bog in 1981 and thinks she has been murderuddy by the IRA, and that of the bog child, Mel, who turns out to have lived 2,000 years ago during the iron age. Fergus smuggles packages across the Northern Ireland border each day, believing them to contain semtex, while his brother goes on hunger strike in prison in an attempt to free Northern Ireland from “the misery of it. The mourning and the weeping. The vale of tears.” Dowd’s command of language is “extraordinary”, said Fickling, as in her description of Mel’s death: “Silver light fizzed and shot apart. Love fell in particles, like snow.”

Siohban was a human rights campaigner for PEN for twenty years. She didn’t write her own book until she was 43. What a shame that she didn’t live to receive this awesome honor.



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