Sunday, August 8, 2010

BETWEEN "A HISTORY OF PREMORSE" AND THE KELTNERIZATION OF THE ROCK HALL, THAT'S A TWO-BOOK DEAL: I want to highlight today's NYT Styles "another thin concept that vaguely sounds like a trend so let's write about it" article for one reason:
This being the aughties, what started as a joke with a colleague at Self blossomed into a Web site, Formerlyhot.com, in 2008. Within two posts on her blog, which now attracts 30,000 visitors a month, Ms. Dolgoff said, five agents got in touch, and a book idea was born.
This blog, on the other hand, has published 11,719 posts (including this one) since 2002. We average between 37,000-51,000 visitors per month. We have never been approached by a literary agent, and have no book deal. Not that anyone here is bitter about it.