via eurweb: Colin Kaepernick has finally signed a contract. The free agent NFL quarterback, who is still jobless after launching the current movement of NFL players protesting social injustice during the national anthem, has inked a book deal worth just over $1 million with Random House imprint One World, Page Six reports. One World’s headed by Chris Jackson, who […]
getty images: Margot Lee Shetterly is about to uncover some more hidden figures as part of a new book deal. We’re so ready for this! We loved watching Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, and Janelle Monae bring us the story of three Black women who helped us win the Space Race in Hidden Figures. We […]
First the Obamas, now the Bidens. Former Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Dr. Jill Biden, have book deals. Flatiron Books told The Associated Press on Wednesday that it will release two books by Joe Biden and one by Jill. Joe Biden’s first book will “explore one momentous year,” when his son Beau died […]
Travyon Martin‘s parents have signed a book deal. Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin is expected to hit shelves in January—almost five years after their son’s tragic death at the hands of George Zimmerman, and just shy of what would’ve been Trayvon’s 22nd birthday. In an exclusive interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Random House’s One […]
After that super crappy start to his trip to Asia over the weekend where President Obama was dissed/snubbed by the Chinese and cussed out by the Philippines president (Rodrigo Duterte), President Obama sure could use some good news and that’s just what we have to report. It looks like the prez and the first lady […]
Two of the three Ohio women held captive for years in a Cleveland house have a book deal. Viking announced Monday that it has acquired the planned book by Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus. The book is currently untitled and is scheduled to come out in 2015. Berry and DeJesus are working with Pulitzer […]
One of three young women held captive for years in a Cleveland house has a book deal. Michelle Knight’s memoir is scheduled to come out next spring, publisher Weinstein Books announced Monday. The book is currently untitled and will be co-written by Michelle Burford, who worked on Olympic gold medalist Gabby Douglas’ memoir. According […]
Mary Jordan is a reporter for the Washington Post and if you didn’t know her name you soon will. She has been tapped by the law firm that represents Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus to write a book about the horrors that happened inside the house on Seymour Avenue. “Like so many people who […]
One of the six anonymous jurors who voted to acquit George Zimmermanof murder charges has signed with a literary agency to write a book about the trial. The former juror, still identified only by her court designation of B37, and her husband reached out to Sharlene Martin, president of Martin Literary Management, on July […]
Ballet dancer Misty Copeland has a two-book deal. Copeland, 30, is working on a memoir for Simon & Schuster’s Touchstone imprint and picture book for G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, part of Penguin Group (USA). Copeland helped break ground as an African American female soloist for the American Ballet Theatre. According to a […]
