March 06, 2009
Remember when we all got outraged that Rod Blagojevich got a book deal? Well we should've guessed it came from a shady Hollywood publisher with a history of lawsuits and bankruptcy! Michael Viner is the guy who payed the disgraced Illinois Governor (probably) exactly $100,000 to write a book about h...
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Pareene
at 12:31 PM
March 02, 2009
Forgotten hairball Rod Blagojevich thought he could finally cash in big with Barack Obama’s Senate seat, but that didn’t work out too well. Then Rod went on every talk show and cable-news program to jabber hysterical bullshit, and that really didn’t lead to riches, either. Now, at ...
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Ken Layne
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February 27, 2009
One thing that I am not is touchy about the fact that I love what I love. And I love Moleskine notebooks. And I love manual typewriters, especially the Hermes 3000, and I love quite a lot of other like-minded stuff. Well, Moleskine notebooks are #122 in the list of Stuff While People Like. Sad b...
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Chris
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February 26, 2009
HarperCollins is paying Nick Douglas a five-figure sum for Twitter Wit, a book of the Gawker alum's favorite Twitter posts. Is getting paid for aggregating other people's "tweets" as lazy as it sounds? Because it sounds somehow even lazier than making a book out of your mom's email messages, a schem...
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Ryan Tate
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November 06, 2008
Want to know why this is so freaking awesome? Because when things like this happen, it makes me believe in writing, in publishing, in my own instincts. I'm not saying this book deal wouldn't have happened without me, but I'm honored to have played a tiny role in it. It makes me feel like even when m...
LUSTY LADY
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Rachel
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November 05, 2008
And by "of note" that's all I mean - I'm not rushing out to read Newt Gingrich's book. from Publishers Marketplace: NON-FICTION: ADVICE/RELATIONSHIPSFormer House Speaker Newt Gingrich and his daughter Jackie Gingrich Cushman's FIVE PRINCIPLES FOR A SUCCESSFUL LIFE, words of wisdom and advice for lea...
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June 11, 2008
Time's Mark Halperin, the most singularly irritating and negatively influential "reporter" in politics today, got a "mid- to high- six-fugre sum" to write a book about the ongoing presidential campaign with New York's John Heilemann. Hey, Mark already wrote a book about the 2008 campaign! It was cal...
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April 30, 2008
If everyone's getting a book deal for their blog, why aren't you? Mostly because your writing hasn't gone anywhere better than a Gawker comment thread, but also because you haven't followed these three steps (note: not a joke article! Real advice inside) to getting a blog book deal. Short version: S...
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April 24, 2008
Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee is writing a book about his run for the Republican presidential nomination. The book will be released in November, 2008 and will discuss his failed bid for the presidency and his ideas for the future of the conservative movement. Sentinel, an imprint of Penguin...
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April 07, 2008
It’s a boring day for the Globe, so let’s have a tasty leftover. On April 1 Alex Beam and Mark Feeney penned a well aimed parody of Deval Patrick’s book that appeared in the paper. Snippet: Furthermore, I understand that, from a strictly business-as-usual, get-elected political standpoint, ser...
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