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Clinton has been phoning pals with pieces of prose. Friends of Bill Clinton better start screening their calls. The former President is feeling chatty. For weeks, Clinton has been holed up in his Chappaqua home as he and Knopf editor Robert Gottlieb saw and chisel the 900-page autobiography titled "My Life." The book is apparently going through its final buffing this week, and the former Oval Officer has been reaching out to pals to give them tastes of his prose. They never know when he'll strike. Rep. Peter King (R-L.I.) was sound asleep at 6:30 a.m. this week when the...

This is the (gag) cover of Clinton's new 900 page book soon to be on bookshelves everywhere. Cameras don't lie even though Bill does....a lot. What was he thinking when this photo was snapped? "Whew, 900 pages of fiction was hard to come up with."

<p>May 4, 2004 -- The publisher of Bill Clinton's forthcoming memoir is "despairing" that the ex-president hasn't churned out enough pages - and that the book is too full of self-justification and blaming of others, a new report claims. Clinton has procrastinated writing "My Life" - for which Random House's Alfred A. Knopf imprint paid a reported $12 million - to such an extent that only within recent weeks did he begin jotting down memories of 1998, when he faced impeachment over of his affair with Monica Lewinsky, Vanity Fair says in its new issue.</p>

Former President Bill Clinton says he is working round the clock to complete memoirs for which he received a $12 million advance, and friends say he is stuck on what has become his favorite subject: himself, according to a story in Vanity Fair on Monday. In an interview with Vanity Fair contributing editor Sam Robert Anson, Clinton says he is obsessed with getting his long-awaited memoirs done, although he only started on his White house years around four months ago. "I am literally hardly sleeping. I am working around the clock. I am killing myself because I want (my memoirs)...

<p>BILL Clinton's bio. Out next month, it's still - if you can believe it - in the tinkering stage. At last week's in- house exclusive chat - a surprise visit - with 250 Random House executives and sales force, he said: "I'm just about finished." These hardcore booksellers have seen it all. Still, he electrified them. It was a 15-minute off-the-cuff talk. Not a note in front of him.</p>

WASHINGTON -- Concerned that they might not recoup their $10 million fee paid to the former President for the rights to his memoirs, Knopf stunned the publishing world Tuesday by announcing plans to publish the Presidential Memoir in the unflattering 'novelty' category -- as a pop-up book. "Its such a natural" said Rick Klembeth, Editorial Director of the novelty division for Knopf. "After reviewing the subject matter, it was a no-brainer. After all, so many of the Presidents deeply personal moments lend themselves to the pop-up format." Klembeth gave reporters a sneak preview of the controversial approach. For instance, the...

Clinton is eager to tell his story Says writing memoirs is a way to 'come to terms' By Bob Minzesheimer USA TODAY Bill Clinton, who's getting nearly $12 million for his memoirs, says everyone eventually should write his or her life story. ''Everybody talks about how terrible this book-writing is. I've enjoyed it,'' the former president tells C-SPAN in an interview to be shown Sunday (6:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. ET/ 3:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. PT). ''Everyone who is fortunate enough to have lived to be 50 should sit down at some point and write the story of his...