Publishers Marketplace brings news of a recent deal:

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Richard Hatch's 101 SURVIVAL TIPS: How to Make a Million Dollars, Lose 100 Pounds and Live Happily Ever After to old friend Tony Lyons at Lyons Press, for a mid-November 250,000-copy release, without agent Eric Simonoff at Janklow Nesbit.

Leave your inevitable "how to avoid being raped in prison" jokes in the comments. It'll make next week's commenter executions a lot easier.

Taxman Takes His Job Seriously [Leader-Post]

Update: This book was actually already published back in 2000, which makes a lot of sense, when you think about it. Not sure why it was showing up as recent on PM, but, either way, feel free to continue mocking his chubby hands, etc.