According to Publishers Marketplace:
Barbara Walters’ memoir, resold to Knopf, for less money than Miramax had paid, though “in the same league” (the original figure was never established, and was guessed to range anywhere from $4 million to $6 million), by Mort Janklow at Janklow & Nesbit.
Yeah, you know, this is what I was offered for [...]

Alec Baldwin is not the only Baldwin brother writing a book. So is Stephen Baldwin - for those who can’t keep those wacky Baldwins straight, Stephen’s the one who was in The Usual Suspects (good movie) and some reality show that took place on an island and also featured the guy who played the [...]

I’ve never been a celebrity memoir gal. For the most part, I don’t care enough about the “real” stories of these people to plunk down $26.00. Not when I can get the juicy details in Star or the National Enquirer by scanning the headlines while waiting in the check-out line…
There are those who [...]

Technically, this doesn’t really relate to anything, but I thought it was funny (ie, too stupid to believe).
Eric Schlosser’s 2001 bestseller Fast Food Nation has been made into a movie with Ethan Hawke, Patricia Arquette, Bobby Cannavale and Avril Lavigne. The idea behind the book is to let us know what we’re [...]

This I get:
FICTION: WOMEN’S/ROMANCE
Jennifer Estep’s KARMA GIRL, the humorous adventures of an intrepid Lois Lane-style reporter whose forte is unmasking — and sometimes disrobing — America’s most illustrious superheroes, to Cindy Hwang at Berkley, in a two-book deal, by Kelly Harms at Jane Rotrosen Agency (NA).
This I don’t:
FICTION: MYSTERY/CRIME
Actress Adrienne Barbeau and Irish author [...]

According to Publisher’s Lunch:
Canadian sitcom actress Mary Jo Eustace is featured on [The New York Post's] Page Six for a book proposal entitled MY HUSBAND LEFT ME FOR TORI SPELLING, represented by Deborah Levine Herman at the Jeff Herman Agency. Spelling and Dean McDermott told the paper in a joint statement: “This is the first [...]

No offense to Renee Zellweger…
Books about writers appear to be somewhat “in” at the moment whether or not the actress wears a fake nose…
I know Finding Neverland did well…
But, I find this Zellweger as Beatrix Potter thing odd. Don’t know why, but I do. Here is gist of the [...]

This week’s Washington Post Book World has an article on turning books into movies called, interestingly enough, Making Books. The underlying theory appears to be that when famous writers stopped putting down Hollywood and, instead, started seeing movies as book vehicles then a funny thing happened - books started to change movies and vice [...]

I enjoy the show Lost for many reasons. It’s sharp and clever. The diverse cast is a tad more representative of real life than, say, the cast of Friends. It features at least one gigantic polar bear, life-like black smoke and a guy who was hidden in an underground shelter for years [...]

Saw this deal announcement on Publishers Marketplace:
FILM RIGHTS
Film rights to Irvin Yalom’s WHEN NIETZSCHE WEPT, depicting a fictional meeting between the German philosopher and psychoanalyst Josef Breuer, to Millennium Films, with filming set to begin in March.
Uh….what?