Supermodel Tyra Banks to Publish First Novel
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Tyra Banks poses at the 58th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards. (AP)
American supermodel and talk-show host Tyra Banks announced Tuesday that she will publish her first novel.
The novel, to be titled "MODELLAND," is one of a three-book deal with Random House and is expected to be published in summer 2011, according to a press release from the publishing company.
"It's for all the girls and guys who want a lot more FANTASY in their lives … and some fierceness and magic, romance and mystery, crazy and wild adventures, and yeah, some danger too," Banks wrote on her website describing her new book.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}After retiring from modeling in 2005, Bank's hosted a day-time talk show from 2005 until it was canceled in 2010. Banks also produces and serves as a judge on the reality show "America's Next Top Model."
Banks authored a how-to make-up book in 1998, called "Tyra's Beauty, Inside and Out." "MODELLAND" will be her first fiction book.