Keith J. Kelly

Keith J. Kelly

Media

Gov. Cuomo bio won’t be released until after election

The publication date of the unauthorized biography of Andrew Cuomo that Vanity Fair scribe Michael Shnayerson is writing for the Hachette Book Group has been pushed back several months until after the November election.

The book, announced more than two years ago with the tentative title, “The Son Also Rises: The First Biography of Andrew Cuomo,” has a new title, too.

It is now called, “The Contender: Andrew Cuomo, a biography,” according to Brian McLendon, associate publisher of Grand Central Publishing, the imprint of Hachette that signed the book in January 2012.

It is now slated to hit store shelves in February 2015 — back from its initial November 2014 launch.

“We just wanted to get away from all the noise of the election and not have it too close to the governor’s own book,” Shnayerson told Media Ink.

Perhaps the author will get lucky and the book will hit just as talk picks up about whether Cuomo will make a run for the White House.

McLendon said that the publisher is planning a 50,000-copy first printing in hardcover.

“We are currently on for 2015,” he said, insisting that missing the election cycle isn’t that big a deal.

“It’s not about the election,” he said, “It’s about Cuomo. And Shnayerson is still writing it. We are going to publish it when it is ready to go.”

Cuomo is working on his autobiography from HarperCollins that is, according to a company spokeswoman, expected out by Aug. 5. It is entitled, “All Things Possible: Setbacks and Success in Politics and Life.”

Income tax documents disclosed by Gov. Cuomo on Tuesday show he received $188,000 from Harper Collins in 2013, but they do not reveal what percentage of the advance money that represents.

Authors typically receive their advance money in at least three installments: when they sign the deal, when they turn in a completed manuscript and upon publication.

At the time of the deal, it was speculated that Cuomo received a mid-six figure deal from Harper Collins.