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Jun 11, 2008 4:11 pm US/Eastern
Memoir Coming From Madonna's Brother
NEW YORK (AP) ―
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The publisher had been promoting a celebrity memoir for July, asking bookstores to order copies without identifying the author or contents.
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The mystery is solved: Madonna's brother, Christopher Ciccone, is
writing a memoir about his sister, to be released in mid-July by Simon
& Schuster with a first printing of 350,000, the publisher told The
Associated Press on Wednesday.
The publisher had been promoting a celebrity memoir for July, asking
bookstores to order copies without identifying the author or contents.
Persuading stores to make "blind" orders has been tried before. In
2006, William Morrow offered a mysterious tell-all that turned out to
be by Princess Diana's former butler Paul Burrell, who had already
written about her. Retailers were angered and the book sold poorly.
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