Little, Brown Sells Embargoed, Untitled Book, Apparently About Madoff

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Little, Brown has been soliciting orders for a untitled, embargoed November 14 release. The publisher bills it in an e-mail as "the inside story of life with one of the most controversial figures of our time." A company leaker says the book is listed on company systems as written by Andrew Madoff's fiancee Catherine Hooper and freelance writer Laurie Sandell. Sandell's graphic novel memoir THE IMPOSTOR'S DAUGHTER was published by Judy Clain at Little, Brown in 2009, represented by Amanda Urban at ICM.

The NYT says the publisher's e-mail promises a "massive media rollout" and an already-booked 60 Minutes appearance. Politics and Prose buyer Mark LaFramboise tells the paper, "I can’t even get mad at it, I just think it's so funny" how little information is provided in the request for orders. Changing Hands Bookstore owner Gayle Shanks says she ordered 10 copies. "The note I sent back to my sales reps was, 'I hate these books.'"
NYT

In other not-yet-books, agent Bob DiForio is shopping a Mick Jagger bio by Debra Sharon Davis, "who traveled with the Rolling Stones to Europe in the 1980." She tells The Wrap, "He supervised the Rolling Stones organization -- the toughest CEO, except he trusted no one and was not a delegator. He questioned every purchase. He even concerned himself with the price of pencil sharpeners in the Stones' office. Whatever the price, he thought it was too high. He was obsessed with profits." The story says Jagger was "a closet conservative who brought his parents flowers during dinner visits and begged his ex-wife, Bianca, to wear a bra under her see-through shirt during a surprise visit from his mother." And it can now be told that he has an "affinity for eggs served soft boiled in a Wedgewood cup."
Reuters