Deal News As the wires recount today, Jay Leno’s written a picture book, IF ROAST BEEF COULD FLY, with illustrations by S.B. Whitehouse, for publication next summer-by an unnamed publisher. When he was a child, Leno was “fascinated by the roast beef going around the spit” and experimented by getting his plastic comb stuck in the string wrapped around the meat. But we’ve got fuller reports on nearly 20 other deals, including a thriller pitched as “reminiscent of George Pelecanos with shades of early James Patterson,” a wrestler turned self-help guru, a new TV deal for Terry Kay, bestselling novelist […]