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Call it the gift that just keeps on giving. Maynard, now 44, published her first memoir at 19, and since then has earned her living doing little besides writing about herself. She has a website www.joycemaynard.com of course) plastered with snapshots of herself and her children, on which she solicits financial contributions and provides links so that people can buy autographed copies of her books, tapes of her commentary for NPR and a CD she's created to go with one of her novels; subscribe to her newsletter; read reprints of her syndicated column; and peruse rambling letters about...
...open this year in Charleston, S.C., and at the Universal Studios theme park in Orlando, Fla.). The fans have also subsidized Buffett's leap into the world of letters, buying so many of his books (children's stories, a novel, a short-story collection, and his latest, a travelogue/ memoir called A Pirate Looks at Fifty) that last month Buffett became one of only six writers to reach the No. 1 spot on both the New York Times' fiction and nonfiction best-seller lists. (The others: Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, William Styron, Irving Wallace and Dr. Seuss.) Buffett, quoting...
Will MONICA LEWINSKY get big bucks for her story? Many publishing-industry insiders say no. Too many big-ticket books, like DICK MORRIS' $2.5 million memoir, have bombed, and Lewinsky may spill most of her beans in public. On the high side, publisher JUDITH REGAN estimates that Monica's story is worth "maybe as much as a million," while ROBERT GOTTLIEB of the William Morris Agency puts the number in the low six figures. LARRY KIRSHBAUM of Time Warner Trade Publishing is closefisted, saying, "I think we're all bimboed out." The supermarket tabloids are similarly split. The Star...
...launch pad and collapsed into their own ruins like defunct Las Vegas casinos. The nation's leading rocketmeister was the boy wonder of Peenemunde, Wernher von Braun, inventor of Hitler's Vengeance Rocket, the V-2. (I Aim at the Stars was the title of Von Braun's memoir; comedian Mort Sahl's suggested subtitle was "But Sometimes I Hit London...
Will Monica Lewinsky get big bucks for her story? Many publishing-industry insiders say no. Too many big-ticket books, such as Dick Morris's $2.5 million memoir, have bombed, and Lewinsky may spill most of her beans in public. On the high side, publisher Judith Regan estimates that Monica's story is worth "maybe as much as a million," while Robert Gottlieb of the William Morris Agency puts the number in the low six figures. Larry Kirshbaum of Time Warner Trade Publishing is closefisted, saying, "I think we're all bimboed out." The supermarket tabloids are similarly split...