Reported Advances

Barbara Taylor Bradford: $30 million for six books (HarperCollins);

Jonathan Kellerman: $25 million for five books (Random House);

Dean Koontz: $18 million for three books (Bantam);

Whoopi Goldberg: $6 million (Morrow);

Colin Powell: $6 million (Random House);

Stephen King: $6 million for three books (Simon & Schuster);

Paul Reiser: $5.6 million (Morrow);

Marlon Brando: $5 million (Random House);

Marcia Clark: $4.2 million (Viking Penguin);

Jay Leno: $4 million (HarperCollins);

Paula Barbieri: $3 million (Little, Brown);

Drew Carey: $3 million (Hyperion);

George Stephanopoulos: $2.75 million (Little, Brown);

Dick Morris: $2.5 million (Random House);

Salman Rushdie: $2 million (Holt);

Don DeLillo: $1 million (Scribner).