Canongate seizes Sears satire Elon Musk's Billionaire School

Canongate has landed Elon Musk’s Billionaire School by Rob Sears, a satirical business guide to achieving the Tesla c.e.o.’s level of wealth. 

Helena Gonda, senior commissioning editor, acquired world all language rights from Gordon Wise at Curtis Brown. The book will publish this autumn. 

The synopsis reads: "This book will teach you how to follow in Elon’s footsteps and accumulate the wealth and power of a medium-sized nation in just 30 days. We’ll learn lessons from [chapters including] ’Migrate towards money’ and ’Fire people on impulse’ to ’Fiercely guard your space crown’ and ’Form strategic alliances’, all designed to help you become a rocket-riding tech titan."

Sears is the author of other humour titles published with Canongate including The Beautiful Poetry of Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin: Life Coach and Choose Your Own Apocalypse with Kim Jong-Un and Friends. His writing has appeared in McSweeney’s, the Guardian and the New Statesman.

"Being a centibillionaire saviour of humanity is seen as this elite thing, but I’ve always thought everyone should be able to have a crack at it," he said. "This book is an attempt to articulate some of the strategies Musk uses so readers can swiftly amass a fortune of their own, build rockets, and join him in outer space.

"When I started working with the brilliant team at Canongate, I had no idea what the series would become. We’ve now done a poetry collection, a self-help book and a choose-your-own-adventure story, each taking on a different despot/strongman. Elon Musk’s Billionaire School will be my first go at a business book, and also my first ’non-political’ leader."

Gonda added: "Rob has proven time and again that he’s the master of taking a fun and irreverent approach to the big issues of the day and this brilliant book is no different. I can’t wait for readers to discover how they too can make it to the billionaire-club of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg et al just in time for Christmas!"