Have y’all heard of this blog called “Stuff White People Like“? I hadn’t. The name is pretty self-explanatory, but apparently we should have been paying more attention because this guy (Christian Lander) bagged a $300,000 book deal from Random House.
And! It wasn’t even some fancy-schmany blog. It was a WordPress one just like I’ve got here.
The kicker is he started the blog in January 2008 and had the deal by March! Well, shoot, by those calculations I’ll be expecting my call in another month or so.
Ok, Random House? You’ve got my number? Alright, I’ll wait by the phone.
Oh, and this will light a fire under your blogging bum–lit agents are popping up bloggers like they’re fat free M&Ms.
You might say the trend started with agent, Kate Lee, who, in 2003, was looking for a way to build her list. Following closely on her heels were Erin Malone and Kate McKean.
But internet and print are two different donkeys. Will people be willing to buy what they got for free? Or will they surf their way over to the next big thing? Only time will tell, but in the meantime, I’d keep blogging away until your fingers fall off and then go purchase one hundred and twenty-three lotto tickets.
P.S. Simon & Schuster? I didn’t mean to discriminate. I mean, if you’re interested, I guess I won’t block you on my caller ID. K, thanks.
For another one of my Friday Forecasts, read Honey, I Shrunk Our Audience.
Status: Well, first off, you’ve got today and tomorrow to comment in order to enter yourself in the drawing for The Map Thief. Can’t wait to hear from y’all! Second, I finished my audition for the video game company. We’ll see how that goes. It was a lot of fun to do, but it kind of caught me on a bad week. So, I did my best.
Nate and I are going to head over to the Breaking Dawn party at our local Barnes and Noble tonight! I’m excited just to see what it is like. I’ve never been to a book party. I’ll let you know how it goes and maybe some of you will have your own experiences to report.
4 Comments
August 1, 2008 at 11:42 pm
I WANT TO WIN A COPY OF THE MAP THIEF
August 2, 2008 at 1:15 am
Well, um, I won’t be making the Breaking Dawn party…I’ll be home sprucing up my blog for when Random House calls. So post a report!
August 2, 2008 at 5:27 pm
One of my high school classmates got a blog-to-book deal a couple years ago. It drove me up a wall at the time — like the SWPL guy, she’d only been blogging for a few months when the William Morris Agency and HarperCollins came knocking. Meanwhile, I’d been blogging for about eight YEARS when her deal appeared in Pub Lunch. I know jealousy will get ya nowhere, but I still allow a few seconds a week of “gahhh! Why not ME?” when I think of her. Her first book came out (it’s non-fiction); it’s pretty good. Her second will be a novel. Her deal was a case of marketable writing, marketable personality, right place, right time. But still! How lucky she was to become an accidental novelist!
Hope the Breaking Dawn party was fun. I went to one, but it was pretty quiet. All I really did there was talk to my friend, have some tea, and look at YA books, which is what I do in bookstores anyway!
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