LUSTY LADY (Free subscription) | 15/08/2008
It Sucked and Then I Cried: How I Had a Baby, a Breakdown, and a Much Needed Margarita by Heather B. Armstrong of Dooce (and yesterday's New York Times ) fame comes out March 24, 2009 from Simon Spotlight Entertainment. She mentioned it on her blog: However. I have another enormous deadline looming over me right now, the one where I'm supposed to turn in the final pages of my manuscript to my editor...
The Point (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
Where do you go with your problems'... Click play above to listen. Sarah Lassez, Psychic Junkie: A Memoir (Simon Spotlight Entertainment, 2006).
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
Simon Spotlight Entertainment just announced that it will publish a second book with Tori Spelling , tentatively titled Mommywood . The new book will be a follow-up to her New York Times bestselling memoir, sTori Telling , but will focus on her life as a mom. Oxygen's "Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood" garnered the highest rated season premiere and most watched season debut of an Oxygen original...
Celebrity Mound (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
Tori Spelling is writing book tentatively titled Mommywood, a followup to her best-selling memoir sTori Telling, publisher Simon Spotlight Entertainment announced Monday. Mommywood will focus on her life as mom to one-year-old son Liam and newborn daughter Stella with husband Dean McDermott. “Writing my first book sTori Telling was an amazing cathartic journey for me,” Spelling said [...]
New York Newsday (Free subscription) | 20/07/2008
LIFE WITH MY SISTER MADONNA, by Christopher Ciccone with Wendy Leigh. Simon Spotlight Entertainment, 342 pp., $26.
New York Newsday (Free subscription) | 20/07/2008
LIFE WITH MY SISTER MADONNA , by Christopher Ciccone with Wendy Leigh. Simon Spotlight Entertainment, 342 pp., $26. Pop culture is littered with celebrities and their lesser-than siblings. For every Jessica Simpson, Lindsay Lohan or Britney Spears, there's an Ashlee, Ali or Jamie Lynn, yearning to prove they're talented, too. In some cases, it's true - Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine, Maggie and...
Slate Magazine (Free subscription) | 17/07/2008
Christopher Ciccone's new celebrity tell-all, Life With My Sister Madonna, hit store shelves on Tuesday. News reports say that his publisher, Simon Spotlight Entertainment, sold the book (co-written with Wendy Leigh) "blind" to retailers, meaning they purchased the book without knowing the author, the subject matter, or whether it would create a gossip maelstrom. Why would retailers make that gamble?...
OTB News (Free subscription) | 17/07/2008
Christopher Ciccone’s new celebrity tell-all, Life With My Sister Madonna, hit store shelves on Tuesday. News reports say that his publisher, Simon Spotlight Entertainment, sold the book (co-written with Wendy Leigh) “blind” to retailers, meaning they purchased the book without knowing the author, the subject matter, or whether it would create a gossip maelstrom. Why [...]
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 15/07/2008
Today is the publication date of Christopher Ciccone's Life with My Sister Madonna and I had to ask Jen Bergstrom , VP and Publisher of Simon Spotlight Entertainment how they did such a great job keeping this publication a secret. GC:Was the book deal done "under the table" so to speak with no announcement made? JB: I first met Christopher and his literary agent in October of last year. We met privately...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 12/06/2008
NEW YORK — The mystery is solved: Madonna's brother, Christopher Ciccone, is writing a memoir about his sister, to be released in mid-July by an imprint of Simon & Schuster, the publisher told The Associated Press on Wednesday. The imprint, Simon Spotlight Entertainment, had been promoting a celebrity memoir for July, without identifying the author or contents. "Life With My Sister Madonna" will have...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 03/06/2008
Here's another anon tip on the Super Secret Memoir from Simon Spotlight Entertainment. Could it be written by Madonna? Someone who knows all of M's staff" says "They were saying some big new project is happening in mid-July for M... I wouldn't be surprised if it's M's book WRITTEN BY HERSELF... Melissa was just the last straw... after that she decided to go ahead and do her own after that and get...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 02/06/2008
We just received a nice anon tip about a new secret "pop-culture memoir" to be published by Simon Spotlight Entertainment with an embargoed July 15, 2008 on sale date and 350 thousand copy first printing in hardcover. Could this be the memoir Madonna's ex-nanny was shopping around last year or something else entirely. What's your guess? New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
NEW YORK, Feb. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Rental prices are rising in most U.S. cities, the Dow Jones reported this past October, and young twenty-somethings feel the crunch. Unable to afford the high costs of living with their entry- level wages, young men and women living in major cities offset their expensive rents by living with roommates. And while communal living can be fun and enjoyable, having roommates...
SmartNews (Free subscription) | 22/01/2008
A new publisher, Simon Spotlight Entertainment, has picked up Jose Canseco s new book on steroids in baseball and will publish it in time for opening day. The Islanders Let Another Lead Slip Away Cory Stillman scored the winning goal [...]
UFCjunkie.com (Free subscription) | 11/01/2008
By Paul Larkin Special to MMAjunkie.com In the first of many soon-to-be-released MMA fighter biographies, Made in America by Matt Hughes and Michael Malice (ISBN: 978-1416948834; Simon Spotlight Entertainment; 304 pages) captures the life of the most dominant champion in UFC history. Matt Hughes may have conquered a mountain to get there, but you wouldn't know it [...]
