The Boston Herald reports that book deals given to bloggers tend to result in lackluster sales; though anyone with Wordpress can likely score themselves a nominal deal, it certainly doesn't mean the book is going to make any money. And the big...
Because we know you're tired of embarrassing yourselves:
As promised, today's Observer features Melissa Lafsky, the lawyer behind witty anonyblog Opinionistas, complete with a lovely portrait (OK, sweetie, time to replace that Friendster pic) and details as to how Lafsky prepared for this week's reveal...
It's nice to see you can lose two jobs in a week and still earn a living in this town. From last night's Publisher's Lunch deal roundup:
• Daily Show stalker-fans of the world, unite! There's an open house this weekend at Jon Stewart's place, and it's your chance to see where the great man shat. [NYO/The Real Estate]
• Victoria Gotti is going to start a celeb mag, she says. Then again, she also said she had breast cancer. [NYP]
• Courtney Love faints during a party at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel and awakens in Cedars-Sinai. She's adamant about her sobriety, and some are whispering about a possible poisoning. Dude, people, let Kurt Cobain go already. [R&M]
Nadine Haobsh, aka the writer behind blog Jolie in NYC — who, after much speculation, was outed as a beauty editor from Ladies Home Journal — dropped us a line yesterday. As we mentioned before, we had simply emailed Haobsh months ago...
Formerly anonymous beauty-mag blogger JolieinNYC, whose identity had been the subject of much speculation over at FishbowlNY, was inadvertently outed on Monday by, natch, a beauty publicist.
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