The Emmy Award-winning actress, filmmaker and comedian, Amy Schumer is ready for the next stage of her career and this time she will be writing a book, a memoir about herself and it is scheduled to come out in late 2016.
Jeremy Gerard of Deadline Hollywood reports that: CBS-owned Simon & Schuster publishing house has won the bid and will pay between $8 million and $10 million for the book. The deal was done by David Kuhn, a former Vanity Fair editor who has found a new career as a literary agent. As to how Kuhn scored the deal Deadline Hollywood writes,
"Kuhn stoked the competition and the interest by requiring a closed-door audience with prospective bidders at his office, where they were allowed to read the proposal. The final round of bids began Monday, and Schumer's Emmy fueled the last-minute frenzy, pumping the meter up from the mid-single-digit millions to closer to $10 million for the winner. By comparison, Fey reportedly won a $6 million advance for Bossypants; Lena Dunham got $3.7 million for her memoir, Not That Kind of Girl."
"Believe it or not, there's actually more I have to say," Schumer, said in a statement released through Gallery. Her book publisher told The Associated Press on Wednesday that her memoir is expected to "offer personal and observational stories from Schumer that range from the raunchy to the romantic, the heartfelt to the harrowing."
"Now readers will have the opportunity to meet Amy Schumer as a writer of real talent, a daughter, a sister, and a young professional making her way in the world," said Carolyn Reidy, president and CEO of Gallery's parent company Simon & Schuster, said in a statement.
The 34-year-old is riding well a very tall wave of popularity following the success of her summer film Trainwreck and the Emmy win that her Comedy Central show Inside Amy Schumer has become one of the most popular, influential and most talked-about show to talk about sex- and gender-related comedy sketches and stand-up.
