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March 17, 2008
New Canseco Book Targets A-Rod, Other Yanks, & Mike Piazza?
Via Publishers Weekly -
Three years later, Canseco is back with his sequel, Vindicated, which Simon Spotlight will publish on April 1. This title is embargoed, and Simon Spotlight is not giving out information until Canseco appears on Nightline on Friday, March 28. Like Canseco’s career and reputation, the book has taken a beating on its way to publication. It was shopped extensively before finally being picked up by Penguin/Berkley in late December 2007.
Less than a month later, Berkley dropped the project, and it was picked up by Simon Spotlight. PW asked Jen Bergstrom, v-p/publisher of Simon Spotlight Entertainment, why she decided to publish Vindicated. “The same reason I decide to publish any book,” she says. “I started reading it, and I couldn’t put it down. I devoured it in one sitting.”
PW was able to secure a copy of the proposal that was sent around for Vindicated. It seems pretty tame stuff except for the ending, which promises “revelations about Alex Rodriguez,... Mike Piazza and other members of the New York Yankees.” The new ghostwriter, Pablo Fenjves, who wrote If I Did It with O.J. Simpson, recently told Time that Vindicated is “full of rich anecdotes,” adding, “I don’t think anybody is going to be disappointed.”
Simon Spotlight is planning a 250,000-copy first printing and plans to kick off the publicity with the Nightline appearance. Canseco will also be hitting such shows as Letterman, Howard Stern and Hannity & Colmes along with a coast-to-coast six-city tour.
The book comes out the day after Opening Day. A-Rod and Piazza? Howard Stern is going to have fun with that one.
As an aside, in the same PW feature, it mention's Kenneth Goldsmith's book Sports that's coming out later this year. Check it out. Sounds like a fun one for Yankees fans.
Posted by Steve Lombardi at March 17, 2008 10:42 PM