Tuesday, October 04, 2005
Cooper Flooded With Book Offers, But Charity Reigns
It seems the New York Daily News has more on the scoop Gawker had last week on a possible book deal for Anderson Cooper. Here's the gossip from the NYDN:
"It looks like Anderson Cooper, the prematurely silver-maned CNN anchor who won plaudits for his searing coverage of Hurricane Katrina, is about to sign a rich book deal to write about his journalistic adventures.
The furious bidding - which has involved Hyperion, HarperCollins and Rodale Press, among others - hit $1 million last week, and I hear that Cooper's agent, Luke Janklow, is getting close to crossing t's and dotting i's with a generous publisher.
Yesterday, a publishing insider told me that Cooper's book - a professional memoir spanning the year from the December tsunami to Katrina to Hurricane Rita - is being sold without an outline, a formal proposal or even a paragraph on paper.
"It's 'We saw you on TV, we saw you get very emotional, we love you, here's the money!'" said the insider.
As befits a guy who's being marketed as "a journalist with a heart," Cooper, I'm told, plans to donate "a significant portion of the proceeds" to charity - including funds for victims of the hurricanes and other natural disasters."
"It looks like Anderson Cooper, the prematurely silver-maned CNN anchor who won plaudits for his searing coverage of Hurricane Katrina, is about to sign a rich book deal to write about his journalistic adventures.
The furious bidding - which has involved Hyperion, HarperCollins and Rodale Press, among others - hit $1 million last week, and I hear that Cooper's agent, Luke Janklow, is getting close to crossing t's and dotting i's with a generous publisher.
Yesterday, a publishing insider told me that Cooper's book - a professional memoir spanning the year from the December tsunami to Katrina to Hurricane Rita - is being sold without an outline, a formal proposal or even a paragraph on paper.
"It's 'We saw you on TV, we saw you get very emotional, we love you, here's the money!'" said the insider.
As befits a guy who's being marketed as "a journalist with a heart," Cooper, I'm told, plans to donate "a significant portion of the proceeds" to charity - including funds for victims of the hurricanes and other natural disasters."
# posted by ATN @ 5:08 PM 
