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Hilary Duff signs up to write young adult fiction

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

Gossip Girl actress Hilary Duff, 22, is extending her talents to novel writing.

Duff has signed with top New York publisher Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers to write a series of young adult novels, beginning with one titled Elixir.

The first novel will tell the story of the worldwide adventures of a photojournalist named Clea Raymond and be released in October this year, ninemsn.com reports.

Duff, who is set to appear in The Story Of Bonnie And Clyde this year, is also planning a non-fiction book about children coping with divorce. She is the daughter of a producer who separated from her husband, inspiring her songs Stranger and Gypsy Woman.

Source: Splash News

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Janet Jackson to Write about Her Weight Struggle

Monday, October 8th, 2007

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Size matters to Janet Jackson, and she has decided to chronicle her yo-yoing weight in a new book. Yeah size does matter for everyone who’s in the public eye, you’ve got a certain image that you have built up over the years and then that’s what you have to maintain. Anything less or more is so severely scrutinized by the media that either you are virtually labeled a skinny or a fat ass. “[I'm] really coming from the soul with it, and what I was going through at different times in my life and what possibly brought it about for myself,” she says of the yet untitled book. Its mostly a fight with your mind, either you accept your new heavy looks and get on with life but that can have catastrophic effects on your career as an artist or you do something about it and live on to tell the world about or better write a book on it and sell it to the world as a new age dieting guru and that’s Janet has chosen to be.

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Shakira Hits the Books at UCLA

Friday, September 14th, 2007

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Shakira already knows how to put out a hit record – but now she’s tackling an even bigger subject: the history of western civilization. Isn’t this piece of news something so different from what we all have being listening, viewing, reading for so many days now. News of the MTV VMAs where singers just boozed, parties, broke relations, fought with each other, gave bad performances bla bla bla. With so much happening isn’t it so cool of Shakira to sit down and learn something that’s worthy of a mention. While everyone else has been at the beach, the MTV Awards and the Emmys, Shakira’s been studying History of Western Civilization all summer at UCLA. I think this is absolutely cool thing that she has enrolled herself into, instead of wasting time and energy of wasteful matter she’s decide that there is time for better things in life and she is utilizing that time for something good, babes you rock!

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