Prince’s long-awaited memoir The Beautiful One is set for a release late 2018, according to NME. A deal was signed to publish the unfinished memoir in 2016, shortly before his death.
Publishing agent Esther Newberg has told Variety that Prince was working with co-author Dan Piepenbring and only submitted 50 pages before his passing at age 57. Editors of the book visited Prince at his Paisley Park compound in Minneapolis to help complete the memoir and work continued on the book shortly after his death.
“It’s never been done before,” she said of the process. “Editors don’t like to be in the same room making their pitches to the same potential clients. We had to do it because I knew he would not want to meet individually with editors” said Newberg on the writing process of the memoir.
She also detailed that the book would contain ‘reproductions of Prince’s longhand pages’ and will feature “an unconventional and poetic journey through [Prince’s] life and creative work”. Christmas time will prove fruitful for Prince fans as Newberg promised it’d be out by the end of the year in time for holiday season.
In February this year, it was announced that Prince fans were able to buy the songwriting credits for his first ever single, ‘Soft And Wet’, that was co-written by Chris Moon, the studio owner of Moon Sound Studio in Minneapolis.
“I have owned ‘Soft And Wet’ since I wrote it, I have enjoyed hearing the song countless times over the years, been paid well and am proud of it,” Moon explained. “I would now like to see someone else enjoy owning it, it has achieved everything and more for me so I feel it is time to pass the torch to a Prince fan who will continue to cherish and enjoy owning it as much as I have.”
