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WORD:
English blogger Catherine Sanderson goes global again -- with a six
figure book deal
You knew it was just a matter of time before Catherine Sanderson, best known for
blogging like a Bridget Jones and then getting canned by her employer,
would cash in with a publishing deal. Michael Joseph/Penguin reportedly
bought her book Petite Anglaise
as part of a two-book deal for roughly a half million bucks at auction.
Literary agents Simon Trewin
and Sarah Ballard at PFD, who
seem to specialize in teaming up to sell debut authors at auction for
large sums, closed the deal with Michael Joseph/Penguin.
Spiegel & Grau in the U.S. and Doubleday in Canada will publish
Petite Anglaise in North America, which PFD agent Zoe Pagnamenta brokered from PFD’s
New York office, according to The
Book Standard.
Sanderson's blog,
which goes by the same title as the first of her two books, is more or
less the musings of a thirtysomething mother in Paris. Now that
Sanderson has a financial package that will allow her to do
some serious writing, what remains to be seen is whether she actually
has literary talent to back her blog's reported 3,000 hits per day.
In recent years
the book industry has published scores of memoirs and novels from
bloggers, figuring their built in readership would translate to buzz
for their work. But the sign-a-blogger trend has yielded anything from
tepidly written gimmicks like Karyn Bosnak’s
20 Times a Lady to intriguing new voices like Stephanie Klein,
whose memoir Straight Up and Dirty
has won the attention of young New Yorkers.
We'll see in
spring 2008, when Sanderson's book is expected to get released.
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