SEATTLE -- After Amanda Knox was released from Italian prison in October, her family said she would be taking time to readjust to life in Seattle before making any decisions about books or interviews. It appears she may soon be ready to tell her story.
According to a report published Sunday in the New York Times, Knox recently met with publishers, editors and publicists vying for the rights to her memoir, and “everybody fell in love with her.”
Knox testified during her 2009 murder trial and again during the 2011 appeal that led to her conviction being overturned, but she’s never told the full story of what happened in Perugia. Her book is widely expected to command a seven-figure advance.
The New York Times reports that many consider the book an easy blockbuster seller and it has “set off a frenzy among publishers.”
Knox was arrested in 2007 for the murder of her British housemate, Meredith Kercher.
Prosecutors portrayed her as a sex-crazed, privileged American who killed Kercher during a sex game gone wrong. But during the appeals trial, the prosecution’s case fell apart due to lack of evidence, and Knox’s public image was transformed to that of a naïve innocent college student convicted by overzealous investigators and an archaic Italian court system.
Knox’s former Italian boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, was also convicted for murdering Kercher and then exonerated on appeal. Sollecito lives in Italy but signed with a literary agent based in Seattle for his book.
Once Knox makes a decision on which publisher will tell her story, the frenzy is expected to turn to who will land the first interview.
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