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Judi Lynn

(160,527 posts)
Fri Feb 21, 2020, 09:09 PM Feb 2020

Former Ukraine diplomat Marie Yovanovitch has book deal

Source: Associated Press


Hillel Italie, Ap National Writer
Updated 5:51 pm CST, Friday, February 21, 2020


NEW YORK (AP) — Former Ukraine ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, the career diplomat who during the impeachment hearings of President Donald Trump offered a chilling account of alleged threats from Trump and his allies, has a book deal.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt confirmed Friday to The Associated Press that it had acquired Yovanovitch's planned memoir, currently untitled. According to the publisher, the book will trace her long career, from Mogadishu, Somalia, to Kyiv and “finally back to Washington, D.C. — where, to her dismay, she found a political system beset by many of the same challenges she had spent her career combating overseas."

“Yovanovitch’s book will deliver pointed reflections on the issues confronting America today, and thoughts on how we can shore up our democracy,” Houghton Mifflin Harcourt said in an announcement.

Financial terms were not disclosed, but two people familiar with the deal told the AP that the agreement was worth seven figures, even though the book is not expected until Spring 2021, months after this fall's election. They were not authorized to discuss negotiations and spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss financial terms. Yovanovitch was represented by the Javelin literary agency, where other clients include former FBI Director James Comey and former National Security Adviser John Bolton.

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Former-Ukraine-diplomat-Marie-Yovanovitch-has-15074286.php

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Former Ukraine diplomat Marie Yovanovitch has book deal (Original Post) Judi Lynn Feb 2020 OP
Good! I'm glad Marie Yovanovitch has a book coming out. I look forward to reading it. sueh Feb 2020 #1
Waiting for Trump's Twitter tirade when it comes out. Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2020 #2
Good on her! MFGsunny Feb 2020 #3
The U.S. Government has been so lucky she has represented it. Judi Lynn Feb 2020 #4
I'll buy her book - fuck Bolton. Talitha Feb 2020 #5
If trump steals the election again, murielm99 Feb 2020 #6
She is a great American patriot. Kid Berwyn Feb 2020 #7
I'll definitely read her book! FakeNoose Feb 2020 #8

Judi Lynn

(160,527 posts)
4. The U.S. Government has been so lucky she has represented it.
Fri Feb 21, 2020, 11:13 PM
Feb 2020

She's a genuinely heroic person. She is courageous, and has been unrewarded for her hard work. Hope her book is very successful.

murielm99

(30,739 posts)
6. If trump steals the election again,
Sat Feb 22, 2020, 01:50 AM
Feb 2020

will he try to block the publication of this book?

These days, anything could happen.

Kid Berwyn

(14,904 posts)
7. She is a great American patriot.
Sun Feb 23, 2020, 09:58 AM
Feb 2020

Her memoir will show just how brave she is, too.

She stood up to the traitors and their gangsters.

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