Sentence:  Strangely enough Monica had been having trouble reaching an agreement with an American publisher for a <WSD>book deal</WSD>. A lot of publishers felt her story had already been told in "The Starr Report". But on November 16, 1998, it was announced that Monica Lewinsky would be telling her story to Andrew Morton, the British author who in 1992 had collaborated with Princess Diana on a best-selling book about her unhappy marriage. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  An agreement between a publisher and one or more individuals to permit the publisher to publish a book, typically written by a different author, about events in the life of the individuals.