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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