Bits and pieces

Whoopi Goldberg Makes Blackstone Publishing Deal with Soul-Stirring Family Memoir "Bits and Pieces"

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Friday, January 26, 2024

NEW YORK, Jan. 26, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Award-winning actor and bestselling author Whoopi Goldberg has inked a deal with Blackstone Publishing to release an intimate and heartfelt memoir of her early life: a moving tribute from a daughter to her mother titled Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me.

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  • NEW YORK, Jan. 26, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Award-winning actor and bestselling author Whoopi Goldberg has inked a deal with Blackstone Publishing to release an intimate and heartfelt memoir of her early life: a moving tribute from a daughter to her mother titled Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me.
  • The deal was negotiated between Goldberg, Blackstone's CEO Josh Stanton, Blackstone's Head of New Business Rick Bleiweiss, and WME Literary Agent Mel Berger.
  • She gains a newfound sense of permanence of those gone too soon through conversations within the pages of her memoir.
  • Rick Bleiweiss stated, "Whoopi Goldberg is an icon and superstar whose work I have thoroughly enjoyed and admired for many years.