Yasbeck writing book about Ritter

Blue Ash, OH native and actress Amy Yasbeck plans to write a book about her late
husband, John Ritter, for Simon & Schuster.

Ritter died five years ago Thursdsy on Sept. 11 from an undiagnosed thoracic
aortic dissection - a tear in the aorta lining allowing blood to escape - after
becoming ill taping "8 Simple Rules."

A month after he died, Yasbeck started the John Ritter Foundation for Aortic
Health (www.johnritterfoundation.org). "Through the foundation, people are
literally getting their lives saved," she told the Sept. 8-14 TV Guide.