1.   At an Authors Guild auction in the city last year, the novelist Barbara Taylor Bradford agreed to write the name of the highest bidder into her next book.

2.   Her next book will be a collection of essays.

3.   Her current poems, Jong believes, will ultimately determine the nature of her next book.

4.   Her next book may or may not involve Jane but will certainly chronicle the mixed-message mores of urban courtship that are her forte.

5.   Her next book will focus on a different subject than activism or investing.

6.   I have a suggestion for her next book.

7.   I look forward to her next book.

8.   In her next book, she found a healthier relationship.

9.   Janet Evanovich has a Web site in which she asks readers to name her next book.

10.   Minutes later, they went on to the serial murderess that Judith Kelman, author of eight suspense novels, is developing for her next book.