COMING TO BOOKSHELVES

COMING TO BOOKSHELVES

Journalist jailed in Iran plans to do memoir

NEW YORK — A journalist jailed for four months in Iran on charges of espionage has a book deal.

Iranian-American Roxana Saberi, 32, is working on a memoir that HarperCollins will publish in March 2010. Saberi’s book, currently untitled, will tell of her arrest in January, her initial sentence to eight years in prison and her release in May after being granted a two-year suspended sentence.

HarperCollins publisher Jonathan Burnham said that the book would not only cover the time after her arrest, but her six years as a reporter in Iran. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Saberi was represented by Washington attorney Robert Barnett, whose clients include President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Raised in Fargo, N.D., and a former Miss North Dakota, Saberi worked as a freelance journalist in Iran for the BBC and other news organizations. She was convicted of spying for the United States in a closed-door trial that her Iranian-born father said lasted only 15 minutes and was freed May 11.

‘Secret’ to be revealed for teens this fall

NEW YORK — It’s teen time for “The Secret.”

Rhonda Byrne’s self-help multimedia phenomenon, which has sold millions of copies, will come out this fall in an edition for young people. “The Secret to Teen Power” will be written by Paul Harrington, who produced the DVD version of the original “Secret.”

According to Simon Pulse, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, the new book will show “how teens can transform their own lives and live their dreams, by understanding and using the power they have in their hands.”

Simon Pulse announced that “The Secret to Teen Power” will have a first printing of 500,000.

Combined dispatches