Kimora Lee Simmons, Tom Sykes Capture the Elusive Book Deal
In New York, book deals are like cats: Everyone has one.
"Celebrity entrepreneur" and wife of Def Jam Records founder Russell Simmons, Kimora Lee Simmons' how-to lifestyle guide, with "inspiring and personal stories," that "advise, uplift and inspire women to live the best life they can," to Judith Regan at Regan Books, for publication in February 2006, plus a children's book set for publication in late 2006.
Excellent use of scare quotes. And publishing news wouldn't be news without the memoir front:
Journalist (known for covering parties, food and drinking) Tom Sykes' memoir of his alcohol-fuelled adventures (and misadventures), tracing his "genetic predisposition" to alcohol all the way back to the mid-eighteenth century, when his ancestor Sir Richard Sykes lay dying from gout, and up to his worm's eye view of the painful but funny first few months of getting sober (a process he began recently), to Leigh Haber at Rodale, in a pre-empt, by Luke Janklow of Janklow & Nesbit, for publication in fall 2006.
How nice that Sykes can trace his alcoholic ancestors, whereas records of ours are stuck in some no-name shtetl that time forgot. WASPs have all the advantages.
