Justin Timberlake Out With a Book Proposal on Golf

Justin Timberlake wants to write a book about golf! Sources say lit agent David Vigliano—who has recently repped books by celebrities like Shannon Doherty and Clay Aiken—sent editors a short proposal by the singer last month. Mr. Timberlake has been a golf fanatic for years, getting his first taste of the game as a Read More

David Vigliano Out With a Christmas Book By Clay Aiken

Lit agent David Vigliano is out with a proposal for a Clay Aiken book based on the American Idol star’s 2006 Christmas special.

“He’s got a very strong Christian audience, primarily because he’s from the South, and that’s an audience that seems to respond to Christmas stories,” said Mr. Vigliano. “He also had the Read More

The Blair Pitch Project

On the afternoon of Monday, May 19, book agent David Vigliano was busy buffing up a five-page proposal to circulate to Hollywood executives: the story of Jayson Blair, a troubled black journalist whose overweening ambition, fueled by the politics of race and inflamed by substance abuse, led him to lie and mislead the public in Read More

Fickle Authors Turn Agents Nasty: Not a Love Story

After journalist Michael Capuzzo’s book on shark attacks, Close to Shore: A True Story of Terror in an Age of Innocence , published by Broadway, spent most of the summer of 2001 floating up the New York Times nonfiction best-seller list, Mr. Capuzzo did what a lot of writers are tempted to do when buoyed Read More