The book, which will include more than 100 new photographs, will hit the shelves in October, shortly before the scheduled release of Lewis' second album, the publisher said on Monday.

"The last two years have been an unbelievable experience for me," said the 23-year-old Londoner, who debuted at No.1 in the key U.S. album chart last year, the first British woman to achieve the feat.

"Spirit" has sold an estimated five million copies around the world since its release in 2007.

Hodder & Stoughton, which did not disclose the financial details of the deal, said photographs for the autobiography would be taken by Dean Freeman, who also worked on the publisher's collaboration with soccer star David Beckham.

After filling up on thin-crust pizzas and downing fancy drinks early yesterday, the Grammy-nominated rapper - known for her work with Eminem, R. Kelly and Fat Joe - left the eatery's VIP section and piled into the Cadillac with three men, witnesses said.

Barnes-Joseph walked outside and slid behind the wheel of her Nissan Maxima, a college graduation gift from her mom.

About 10 minutes later, Remy Ma got out of the SUV, got into the Maxima and shot the woman twice in the midsection, police sources and witnesses said.

Barnes-Joseph was in stable condition at St. Vincent's Hospital Manhattan yesterday.

Dressed in designer jeans and looking disoriented, Remy Ma, whose real name is Remy Smith, surrendered to cops at the 6th Precinct stationhouse in Greenwich Village about 8 p.m. yesterday. She was charged with attempted murder, assault and possession of a weapon.

"There's only one rule for a new word getting in: If it's likely to be found in printed reading matter - magazines, newspapers, novels - it's likely to get in," Peter Sokolowski, an associate editor for Merriam-Webster, told MTV News. "Our entire staff reads and marks everything we can get our hands on: Vibe magazine, magazines on pregnancy and sailing, math journals, physics journals, soup-can labels, menus. Basically, when a word gains a critical mass of citations, we'll include it.

"We try to include words that aren't just trends," he continued. "We're looking for words that will be referred to in the future and people won't need any explanation to know what it means. If the editor of a newspaper can publish a word and he or she expects readers to know what it means, we'll include it."

Sokolowski said that in the case of a word like crunk, they had followed its use from the pages of hip-hop publications to magazines like Sports Illustrated and finally into Time and The New York Times. And yes, he's aware that including crunk in the dictionary suggests that it's no longer a "cool" word (this actually happened sometime around 2002), but that's just another part of the process: When your parents know what a word means, it's probably about time to include it in the dictionary.