Comments on: MeFi book deals?!

MeFi book deals?!

mathowie — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:38:16 -0800

Jessica Hagy, author of Indexed, the Venn Diagrams-on-cards blog, on how she went from unknown blog to bookdeal in just a few months: "About a week after I posted the first batch last August, somebody linked the blog to Metafilter. Whoever you are, thank you! That's how my agent (it's still strange to me that I have an honest-to-god agent) found me, and from there, it just sort of took off." Crazy.

By: ThePinkSuperhero

ThePinkSuperhero — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:45:03 -0800

Quick: someone make a FPP about my blog, so I can get a book deal, too!

By: ThePinkSuperhero

ThePinkSuperhero — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:45:07 -0800

Kidding!

By: Bookhouse

Bookhouse — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:49:53 -0800

*stops working on book, starts working on website*

By: briank

briank — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:36:14 -0800

That's great! Who gets the cut from the royalty check, mathowie or the OP?

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:15:50 -0800

Quick: someone make a FPP about my blog, so I can get a book deal, too!

Who wants to read a 500 page book about how beautiful Zac Efron's hair is?

By: SassHat

SassHat — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:32:33 -0800

Hydrophonic is a pimp for sure.

By: ThePinkSuperhero

ThePinkSuperhero — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:33:43 -0800

1 in 3 girls in America has a picture of Zefron on their wall*, ColdChef, so I imagine I could make a KILLING. And the person who posts my blog to the front page MIGHT get a percentage of the profits, winkwinknudgenudge.

*Some teen magazine said that/made that up.

By: hydrophonic

hydrophonic — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:36:07 -0800

Aw shucks. You're welcome, Jessica. I saw it on core77, who saw it in Good Magazine.

Who gets the cut from the royalty check

I already got paid.

By: It's Raining Florence Henderson

It's Raining Florence Henderson — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:46:46 -0800

CHAPTER I

"Well, Perez, so New York and Hollywood are now just private estates of the Disney Corporation. But I warn you, if you don't tell me that this means the singularity, if you still try to defend the infamies and horrors perpetrated by that wholly-owned subsidiary of the Antichrist--I really believe they are a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Antichrist--I will have nothing more to do with you and you are no longer my friend, no longer my 'faithful slave,' as you call yourself! But how do you do? I see I have frightened you--sit down and tell me all the news."

It was in October, 2007, and the speaker was the well-known Miss Kate the Great, ThePinkSuperhero, herself. With these words she greeted Perez Hilton, a man of high rank and importance in the celebrity gossip circuit, who was the first to arrive at her reception. ThePinkSuperhero had had a concern for some days. She was, as she said, suffering from Cowlick Colic by Proxy; Cowlick Colic by Proxy being then a new term in the industry, used only by the elite to describe the horror of bad celebrity haircuts...

By: Mister_A

Mister_A — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:18:21 -0800

I could string together a pretty good book using only my comments from 2006 that contain the word "fucktard". Agents, are you listening?

By: phearlez

phearlez — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:01:35 -0800

This calls for a friend-linking witch hunt!

By: GrammarMoses

GrammarMoses — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:57:15 -0800

At first I read that as "friend-licking" and thought, "Why bother to multi-task?"

By: b1tr0t

b1tr0t — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 21:17:39 -0800

So, will you be selling self-links for $500 a pop now?

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 22:00:03 -0800

Seven years of mining pure gold from the Metafilter rockface, and what have I got to show for it?

Only my bitter, bitter tears.

Congratulations to Jessica, though. That's pretty damn cool.

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 22:35:21 -0800

Awesome news Matt, so glad to hear Jessica Hagy has a book deal and how cool it emerged from a MetaFilter post. Can only imagine it must make you feel good to know someone's life is being substantially benefited out of your own creation here.

Jessica's simple looking art really is delightfully innovative and I'm not surprised popular enjoyment of her work took off like a rocket.

A heartening update. Good feelings all around.