Lena Dunham has sold her book proposal to Andy Ward, an executive editor at Random House for $3.7 M., a source familiar with the deal told us. The auction, which was still going on as late as Friday, was decided over the weekend.
The proposal (obtained by The Observer) for Not That Kind of Girl, mocked up Read More
Ding ding ding. While everybody else was busy debating the first presidential debate last night, bidding for Lena Dunham’s book, tentatively titled Not That Kind of Girl, climbed to 3.6 million, DeadlineNY reports.
And the bidding is not over yet–it is expected to go even higher. No word from her literary agent, Kim Witherspoon (who Read More
It had to happen. Lena Dunham, creator and star of HBO’s Girls, New Yorker contributor, frequent panel participant and Oberlin grad, is shopping a book proposal, the Post reports.
Although a source told the Post that the book, tentatively titled Not That Kind of Girl, is slated to go for a minimum of $1 million dollars, it’s not all about money. It’s about being unique and interesting.
“Instead of just auctioning off the book to the highest bidder and having them publish it, they are doing it in a unique way,” a publishing insider told the Post. “The top five bidders in this week’s auction will sit down with Lena on Friday for a meeting. She’ll then choose from those offers.” Read More
Sportswriter Jake Appleman has inked a deal with Scribner to cover the Brooklyn Nets debut season. Mr. Appleman has written about basketball for The New York Times, NBA.com, Vibe and NBC Sport and is a senior writer at SLAM magazine. Mr. Appleman tweeted the news this afternoon.
Other sportswriters throughout Brooklyn are surely kicking themselves Read More
Scientology head honcho David Miscavige’s niece has a book deal for a tell-all about the organization. Tony Ortega, former editor-in-chief of The Village Voice, is trying to get a book deal about the subject (rather than just blogging about it at the alt-weekly). The Master is in theaters. There is ongoing interest in Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes (and a Vanity Fair cover story). Read More
So you thought that Kenneth Starr and Linda Tripp already discovered everything you never wanted to know about Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky’s affair back in the 1990s? Think again.
Ms. Lewinsky, the woman who will forever be the intern with a stained blue dress, has decided to capitalize on her long-lived fame and sullied name. The Post reports that she got a $12 million book deal, although the publisher has not been disclosed. That’s a lot of money (especially in these days of austerity and low book advances) but apparently Ms. Lewinsky has the goods. Read More
Every now and then, something from the daily Publisher’s Lunch email—which tells of the latest book deals in the publishing industry—will catch our eye. Read More
Rob Lowe earned accolades upon the publication of his memoir Stories I Only Tell My Friends when it turned out he was literate, or as The New York Times put it, “He’s Handsome — You Noticed? — but Not Just.” That Mr. Lowe was both a celebrity and had apparently read Elements of Style put him on the bestseller list. Now he’s back for another round! Read More
The Occupy Wall Street book deals are flooding in too fast to keep up! Yesterday saw announcements of books from Todd Gitlin and n+1; today it’s David Graeber, an anthropology professor at the University of London and one of the most prominent early participants in Occupy Wall Street. Recently profiled in Business Week as “the anti-leader of Occupy Wall Street,” Mr. Graeber’s first book, Debt: The First 5,000 Years, has become an unofficial bible of sorts for the movement and a deal to translate it into German was announced just a few days ago. That book was published by indie publisher Melville House Press, which is known for paying authors small advances. Now Mr. Graeber has jumped to the big leagues, to Random House-owned imprint Speigel & Grau for this second, as yet untitled book. Read More
Todd Gitlin, former president of SDS and a professor of social history at Columbia University, will write a book called Liberty Square, to be published by HarperCollins imprint It Books. The announcement posted yesterday on Publishers Marketplace describes it as “a look at the Occupy movement at its pivotal moment, as it weighs its unexpected power and grapples with its future mission.” Read More
