Jose, can you see a future in publishing?
Jose Canseco is changing publishers for his sequel on steroids use in baseball, according to several published sources.
"Vindicated," the followup to "Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits and How Baseball Got Big," was dropped Tuesday by Berkley Books, an imprint of Penguin Group USA, The New York Times reported on its Web site. "Vindicated" was supposed to be in book stores within the next two months.
Bret Saxon, Canseco's book agent, told the paper that he had obtained another publisher and that the book remained scheduled to be released by opening day in April. Saxon declined to name the publisher.
Canseco is collaborating with Pablo Fenjves, a former National Enquirer writer and the ghost writer of "If I Did It," the book in which O.J. Simpson gave an imaginary confession to how he would have killed Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, the paper said. Don Yaeger, the former Sports Illustrated associate editor who recently did the book on Reggie Bush's proported troubles with shady agents called "Tarnished Heisman," had signed on but then pulled out. Maybe "Vindicated" isn't sausy enough. That was enough of a signal for Berkley books to question whether the book was worth putting out.
"Juiced," Canseco's 2005 book and No. 1 New York Times bestseller, described his steroids use and implicated Mark McGwire, among others. It's not to be confused with "Juicy: Confessions of a Former Baseball Wife," by former espousa Jessica Canseco.
Bret Saxon, Canseco's book agent, told the newspaper that Canseco was "naming some new names and some huge ones" and discusses the Mitchell Report.