Breitbart News tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos will be publishing a book through Simon & Schuster’s Threshold Editions imprint, according to The Hollywood Reporter. He was reportedly paid a $250,000 publishing advance for the book, which will be autobiographical.
Yiannopoulos told THR that he met with Simon & Schuster “top execs” earlier this year and “spent half an hour trying to shock them with lewd jokes and outrageous opinions,” expecting to be asked to leave. Instead, he says, they offered him “a wheelbarrow full of money.”
When reached by email, a representative for Threshold Editions told The Verge that the book, titled Dangerous, is set for release on March 14, 2017. They cited Yiannopoulos’ self-description, “the most fabulous supervillian on the internet,” and said that the book will be about “free speech.” The book is currently listed on Amazon but does not have a description.
Threshold Editions is the publishing giant’s politically conservative nonfiction arm. Its most recent releases include titles by Glenn Beck, Donald Trump, and former Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal, as well as a biography of Chris Christie and a satirical history of the Obama era called Give Me Liberty or Give Me Obamacare, with a foreword by Dick Cheney and an afterword by Rush Limbaugh.