Simon Pegg has signed a seven-figure publishing deal to write three books.

Under the contract with Hodder & Stoughton, the comedian will release a title each autumn for the next three years. The first, due out in 2009, will be his autobiography, tracing his career from his first-ever stand up gig, through Spaced, Sean Of The Dead and Hot Fuzz, ending with his role as Scotty in the forthcoming Star Trek film.

Although details of the subsequent two books are being kept secret, trade magazine The Bookseller said they would also be non-fiction.

Publisher Ben Dunn struck the deal for worldwide rights with Pegg's agent Dawn Sedgwick. He said: ‘Simon is absolutely the most talented person in the whole wide world. He is an extremely engaging and funny writer and I can't wait to start working with him.’

He added that Pegg’s transatlantic success helped secure the deal. ‘Pegg writes for us, but somehow the films appeal to America too,’ he said. ‘He is our biggest export – I don't think there is any British actor of his ilk that has been so successful.’

Surely one of the other two books will be a Spaced book.
That one's been on the card for a few years.

I would love to see a Spaced book but if you read the release again it does say the other two books will also be non-fiction

There was talk a few years ago about a Spaced script book (see the FAQs!), which is what I think people above are refering to.

My guess is that would be something seperate from what has been agreed by Simon above, as it would also require the co-operation of Jessica and Edgar(?) - who knows?!

Simon is absolutely the most talented person in the whole wide world. He is an extremely engaging and funny writer...

I love how it says "in the whole wide while".
It seems so child-like and innocent.

What's a "whole wide while"?

Several hours? 10 hours? A week?

Synopsis
Zombies in North London, death cults in the West Country, the engineering deck of the Enterprise: Simon Pegg has been ploughing some bizarre furrows in recent times. Having blasted onto the small screens with his now legendary sitcom Spaced, his rise to nation's favourite son status has been mercurial, meteoric, megatonnic, but mostly just plain great. From his childhood (and subsequently adult) obsession with Star Wars, his often passionate friendship with Nick Frost, and his forays into stand-up which began with his regular Monday morning slot in front of his 12-year-old classmates, this is a joyous tale of a homegrown superstar and a local boy made good.

He's too young for an autobiography.

I know I'll be buying it!

Looking at Amazon, it looks like it will be out in hardback, paperback, CD-ROM and Audio CD.

I thought it was meant to be more like a bunch of interesting anecdotes from his life rather than an actual autobiography?

CD-ROM? Is it 1994?

interactive menus?

That's what an autobiography is.

Witchcraft!

Yes.... and No.


I just meant that I thought this book was a series of little stories from his life, rather than "his life story".
If you know what I mean?

It is. It's not his life story... I think it just focuses on the last 10 years. ...from Spaced to Trek.

An autobiography doesn't have to be a life story. ... you could write a book just concentrating on a couple of months and it'd still be a biography.

So it doesn't actually make sense then to say that he (or anyone) is too young to write an autobiography then.

That's it! I have delivered the last few changes and captions on my book. Nerd Do Well goes to print next week and comes out in October.

He was apologetic on Twitter about the locations. I don't think he has much say about where he does and doesn't get sent.