Law student Julia Neyman, the (savvy!) moocher of free gym trials, has "no interest in a book deal," but would "love to parlay" her stunt into freelance writing gigs, she tells Above the Law. Maybe offer editors free trial articles?

Eric Schmidt might advocate for making information "even more open and accessible," but not when it comes to his mistresses. We're told the Google CEO's aggressive lawyers brought down ex-girlfriend Kate Bohner's online recovery diary this weekend.

Columbia Law student Julia Neyman is at the center of a building media frenzy over her blog stunt, to work out on free gym passes for a full year. Cue the requisite book deal in three... two...

Eric Schmidt has long campaigned for free-flowing information, and even against the very idea of secrecy. But we doubt the Google CEO loves disclosure so much he'll approve of an indiscreet blog-cum-memoir by his sometime mistress.

In addition to being a college professor, alleged University of Alabama Huntsville shooter Amy Bishop was also an amateur novelist. We may have found one of her books and it's a tale of aliens and ammunition.

Walter Isaacson's authorized biography of Apple's CEO will probably net the former Time editor way less than the $15 million previously reported. That's because Steve Jobs gave Isaacson the byline — thus reminding everyone his biographer last profiled Albert Einstein.

Washington Post-approved white humorist Dana Milbank, last seen being handed his own Sunday op-ed column, is now writing a book about Glenn Beck entitled Tears of a Clown. It will feature japes, jibes, jests, jokes, and possibly zingers. [Michael Calderone]

Author Steve Almond self-publishes a book of essays that he's made available only at the Harvard Bookstore and his readings, in a fist-shaking move at Evil Corporate Publishing. Of course, he still has a Random House book contract, so.

Coming in March: Poster Boy: The War of Art. The kid got a book deal, huzzah! You might say it's "too soon," but is it really? Hopefully the law's not taking all his money, yet. Exciting publisher's boilerplate description below.

People writer Steve Helling will write an oh-so-unauthorized biography of Tiger Woods. Publisher Perseus Books tells Publishers Weekly it will be "the first" post-scandal book on the sexaholic golfer. But surely not the last. Title ideas, anyone? (Via GalleyCat)

Rajendra Pachauri, the head of the UN's panel on climate change, has written a scandalous sexxxy novel about a sexy environmental scientist that, by political logic, thereby discredits the concept of "global warming." Is the book really that bad?

Here's a memo that John Sargent just sent out to all Macmillan authors and agents about the publisher's ongoing fight with Amazon over e-book pricing. It's optimistic! Sort of. Their titles are still removed from Amazon, but a peace accord might be imminent. Basically there's still a lot of figuring out to be done about what the brave new world of publishing will look like.

Nick McDonell was 17 when he wrote 2002's Twelve, about New York's richkids experimenting with new superdrugs. Now it's a Sundance movie, by Joel Schumacher, starring Chace Crawford, Emma Roberts, Keifer Sutherland, and 50 Cent. And it sucks. Terribly.

After the loss of two celebrated writers this week — Howard Zinn and J.D. Salinger — it's easy to feel like there's nobody left. But there is! Lauren Conrad, Hills star and author. And now she's sharing her favorite books.

On the 15th anniversary of her death, Tejano queen Selena is finally telling her story—by co-writing a new book with her former publicist, who channels Selena with the help of a psychic. This will save publishing. [Guanabee]

No doubt, Steve Jobs showed off a compelling tablet computer today, one that should excite people who make videogames, TV shows — even books. But today's Apple iPad debut was a big letdown for magazine and newspaper people.

Uh oh: It looks like McGraw Hill's CEO didn't get the memo about how Apple omertà strictly forbids the leaking of any tablet news prior to Steve Jobs' big presentation tomorrow. He went on CNBC and blabbed.

Here's a collection of children's books perfect for the child who's sleeping under the bed. Above: Betrugs-Lexikon, whose back-cover text translates literally as: "The World's Wagon and Plow Is only Train Lies and Fraud."* [via The Rumpus]

Yes, he did, because the fancy typeface he used for Our Choice had ones that looked too much like I's.

Gretchen Rubin seemed to have it all a few years back. She was a graduate of Yale Law, had established herself as a bestselling author, was happily married to her law school sweetheart, had two beautiful girls, lived on Park Avenue, and also happened to be the daughter-in-law of Robert Rubin, the fantastically wealthy former co-chairman of Goldman Sachs and Treasury Secretary under President Clinton. (Bonus!) And yet she still wasn't happy. So, naturally, Rubin took a year off to clear up her "midlife malaise."