![]() Michael Korda, from his New York office, added, "If this isn't the largest amount of money in American book publishing, it sure ought to be. "I don't like to talk figures," said Jackie Collins in her Beverly Hills home about her new deal, "but I will say it's a record-breaking contract." As a reaffirmation of Simon and Schuster's warm feeling for its massive moneymaker, Michael Korda signed Jackie up for two additional books after the completion of her current contract. ![]() There are those who will tell you that Jackie isn't happy with the proximity, and neither is her superstar agent, Morton Janklow, who long ago moved in on Swifty Lazar's turf as the agent who got the most bucks for his writer clients. "I get along very well with both of them," said Korda. (Lazar sold it abroad for an additional $2 million-$1 million in England alone-without showing one written word.) Yes, friends, Joan Collins, between takes as the beloved bitch Alexis Carrington Colby on Dynasty, has written her own novel, called Prime Time, about a-top-rated soap opera on American television, with 8 or 10 characters, all of them actors and actresses, and a leading lady who has overcome obstacles, both personal and financial, to regain her stardom.Īnd as if that weren't enough, Joan's literary agent, the legendary Irving "Swifty" Lazar, a superstar in his own right, has sold Joan's book for a million bucks to, you guessed it, Jackie's publisher, Simon and Schuster, where her editor is another superstar, Michael Korda, a novelist in his own right, who-hang on to your hat-also happens to be Jackie's editor. Just when you thought you knew all there was to know about the highly publicized Collins sisters, Joan and Jackie, or Jackie and Joan, comes the news that big sister Joan, the soap-opera superstar, whose divorces and romantic exploits have been making tabloid headlines for 30 years, has turned literary in her 55th year and is moving in on the printed-page turf of her little sister Jackie, the superstar novelist, whose 11-volume oeuvre has sold 65 million copies in 30 languages throughout the world over the last two decades.
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