Read more book deal stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/38200/book-deal.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 11:38:47 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73684/shit-my-dad-says-heads-to-tv.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMove over, Al Bundy: A project based @shitmydadsays, the Twitter feed engineered by the son of a cantankerous father, has been picked up by CBS. The creators of Will and Grace are on board as executive producers, with that selfsame transcriber of a son taking writing duties. The microblog’s title...http://www.newser.com/story/73684/shit-my-dad-says-heads-to-tv.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 10 Nov 2009 11:21:54 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73312/obamas-half-bro-says-dad-beat-him-mom.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFor Mark Ndesandjo, Barack Obama is something of a monster. Not the president, but their father, Barack Obama Sr. Ndesandjo, full name Mark Odoth Obama Ndesandjo, has just released an autobiographical novel depicting the Obama patriarch as a brilliant-but-violent drunk who beat him and his Jewish-American mother, and while some...http://www.newser.com/story/73312/obamas-half-bro-says-dad-beat-him-mom.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 04 Nov 2009 13:24:37 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/70304/victoria-gotti-spills-mob-secrets-in-tell-all-book.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagVictoria Gotti insists she doesn’t condone crime. But in her new tell-all book, The Family of Mine , Mafia don John Gotti's daughter compares mobsters to Robin Hood and his merry men, claims they’re better than corrupt politicians, and says she sees no difference between paying into a protection racket and...http://www.newser.com/story/70304/victoria-gotti-spills-mob-secrets-in-tell-all-book.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 25 Sep 2009 11:28:37 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70089/edwards-aides-tell-all-finds-publisher.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIf John Edwards wants to cop to fathering Rielle Hunter’s baby on his own terms, he’d better act quickly. Former aide Andrew Young—who took Edwards' fall as babydaddy—will have his tell-all published by St. Martin’s Press in wake of a prominent New York Times story last weekend, sources...http://www.newser.com/story/70089/edwards-aides-tell-all-finds-publisher.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 23 Sep 2009 6:54:51 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70023/jenny-sanford-to-pen-inspirational-memoir.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagJenny Sanford will write an “inspirational memoir” to be released by Random House next spring, CNN reports. The publisher is mum on how much the estranged wife of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford will get for her trouble. The fairer half of the couple has been fairly tight-lipped since the...http://www.newser.com/story/70023/jenny-sanford-to-pen-inspirational-memoir.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 22 Sep 2009 12:42:56 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/68599/twitter-makes-dad-a-star-son-fields-book-deals.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe delightfully profane dad who's the unwitting star of the August Twitter sensation "shitmydadsays," where his recently-moved-back-home son posts his cranky rants about making messes and dodging chores, may not be quite as clueless as he's been made out to be. Sam Halperin is actually a 73-year-old with a long...http://www.newser.com/story/68599/twitter-makes-dad-a-star-son-fields-book-deals.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 04 Sep 2009 3:47:05 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/67452/rumor-mill-palins-moving-to-rhode-island.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWord on the street is that Sarah Palin is planning a move to Rhode Island—but so far, it’s just one rumor among many. Seems a bit of an odd choice: It’s a left-leaning state whose former senator has called Palin a “cocky wacko,” notes Randal Edgar in the Providence...http://www.newser.com/story/67452/rumor-mill-palins-moving-to-rhode-island.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 21 Aug 2009 10:43:46 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/66809/i-had-an-affair-with-madoff-accountant.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAn accountant says Bernie Madoff didn’t just steal her money, he stole the shirt—and various other articles of clothing—right off her back. In her upcoming book Madoff’s Other Secret: Love, Money, Bernie, and Me , Sheryl Weinstein, former CFO of Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America, says she...http://www.newser.com/story/66809/i-had-an-affair-with-madoff-accountant.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 13 Aug 2009 9:38:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/66761/freed-journo-ling-shops-book-with-sister.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThat was quick: One of the journalists imprisoned in North Korea and freed earlier this month is shopping a book proposal, the Wall Street Journal reports. Laura Ling’s book will be written in collaboration with her sister, Lisa, and proposes to deal not only with Laura's detention but with sisterhood...http://www.newser.com/story/66761/freed-journo-ling-shops-book-with-sister.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 12 Aug 2009 17:00:02 CDT