1.   And the first-time author, Steve Alten, is now suing Doubleday for rejecting his second book.

2.   Before his friend or a literary agent got back to him, he had finished his second book.

3.   For his second book, Gary M. Lavergne chose a powerful subject and plunged into his research, producing a wealth of facts, anecdotes, observations and background.

4.   His second book uses a similarly lush, reflective, sometimes brutal style to tell a story set just before the Civil War.

5.   Minkow said he will start work today as a clerk for his criminal lawyer David Kenner and hopes to have his second book published in March.

6.   Now he is writing his second book, and on Wednesday Bantam said that it would publish it in the fall.

7.   The spectacular result failed to reach a wide audience, but gained sufficient critical praise to ensure that his second book will be widely reviewed.

8.   Those include making speeches at industry meetings and other conference around the U.S., and writing his second book about the mutual fund industry, he said.

9.   In his second book, Jay zeros in on the teen-parent relationship, offering as much advice for parents as he does teens.

10.   Newman is working on his second book.