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Pippa Middleton is no stranger to parties. Between managing an online magazine to promote her parents’ party planning business, to helping with the wedding reception this spring of her sister, Duchess Catherine of Cambridge, the royal-sister-in-law has had some valuable experience. At least the Penguin Group thinks so.

Arnold Schwarzenegger has a book deal. The bodybuilder, actor, former California governor and estranged husband of Maria Shriver has an agreement with Simon & Schuster to publish a memoir in October 2012. According to Simon & Schuster, the book's working title is "Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story." Schwarzenegger is collaborating with Peter Petre, who has worked on best sellers by former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf. Schwarzenegger began the book last year.

The founder of the WikiLeaks website, Julian Assange, has said he expects to earn more than £1m from book deals.

Sen. Scott Brown, the Massachusetts Republican who pulled off one of the biggest upsets in recent years by winning the seat once held by Sen. Edward Kennedy, has a book deal.

The first images are emerging of an adult Jaycee Dugard, the woman who was kidnapped when she was 11 and allegedly held captive for 18 years by a couple in an elaborate compound hidden in the backyard.