8 March 2021: How Much Did Governor Cuomo Make from His Pandemic Leadership Book Deal?

"They Thought they Had Identified Another Political Star": Sources Say Andrew Cuomo's Tortured Pandemic Memoir Fetched a Seven-Figure Advance

The article starts digging into the saga of a book that should never have been written.

The scandals swirling around Andrew Cuomo have reignited speculation about the memoir he published last year, American Crisis: Leadership Lessons From the COVID-19 Pandemic, highlighting his then heralded handling of New York's coronavirus emergency. The biggest curiosity of all remains the size of Cuomo's book deal with Crown, a subsidiary of Penguin Random House. The governor has declined to specify how much he got for the book, saying in August, "You'll see it on my financial disclosure," the deadline for which is May 15. But the talk among sources familiar with the deal is that the book sold for at least low to mid-seven figures, which is a blockbuster sum by industry standards. Cuomo has said he would donate a portion of his earnings from the book to an unspecified COVID-19-related charity.

Literary Hub provides a more interesting critique of the news of Governor Andrew Cuomo's pandemic book deal:

Today's unsurprising-but-still-depressing publishing news: Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has been accused of sexual harassment by five women, reportedly received "at least low- to mid-seven figures" for his memoir, American Crisis: Leadership Lessons From the COVID-19 Pandemic, which was published by Crown in October of last year.

In addition to the sexual harassment claims, Cuomo is also facing an inquiry into his handling of nursing homes during the pandemic. At the same time he was writing the book (okay, at the same time a ghostwriter was writing the book), Cuomo was rewriting the number of COVID-19 nursing home deaths, undercounting by thousands.

Governor Cuomo's pandemic book deal is a scandal all unto itself!