Right now, the publishing world is bidding on Emily Gould’s blog book, “And the Heart says Wahtevs.” Last month, Gould wrote a controversial essay for the Times Magazine detailing her battle between public life and privacy as a Gawker blogger. The last woman I can recall writing a first-person cover essay for the Times Mag was Joan Didion.
So, how much will the book fetch? I’m saying $250-300k with a $200k back-end if movie rights are optioned. I hope a mega-literary house grabs it too.
NYMag got the proposal and excerpts a paragraph in which one of the sentences is, “He has five more minutes and then he has to leave for wrestling, and besides, sex never seems to relax him.” That’s almost as good as, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…”
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