Mike Pence - remember him?
Pence signs a seven-figure book deal, but Trump and other administration alums face a tough market in publishing.
www.cnn.com/2021/04/07/politics/pence-book-deal-trump-administration/index.html
Two people in the publishing industry tell CNN the former vice president's deal is worth seven figures, somewhere in the range of $3 million to $4 million.
News of it comes as the publishing industry grapples with questions of how to handle high-profile would-be authors from the Trump administration.
The concern, according to highly placed sources in publishing, is whether the writers could be counted on to tell the truth -- and whether a publisher might provoke a damaging backlash in the culture of cancellation.
"I would try to keep an open mind," said one publishing source. "That doesn't mean I would sign them."