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Next De Becker to Dial
Judy Quinn -- 12/8/97
Celebrity security consultant Gavin De Becker's next book, How to Protect Your Children, went not to option-holder Little, Brown, but to Dial v-p and editorial director Susan Kamil for a rumored $1-million advance. Although De Becker's June 1997 book, The Gift of Fear, was a 250,000-copy-plus hardcover bestseller for Little, Brown -- a success sweetened by a high-six-figure paperback sale to Dell a week ago -- LB, which reportedly paid much less than seven figures for the first book, and the author, repped by Kathy Robbins, couldn't come to terms on the new deal. Kamil plans a spring 1999 publication for the new book.

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