Random Gawker Mention Leads to Book Deal

By Neal 

Two months ago, Gawker linked to a flowchart that asked readers, “Do you dress like a douchebag?” Literary agent Holly Bemiss spotted the item, got in touch with the chart’s original creator, and now she’s sold a whole collection of flowcharts to TOW Books, the line of humor books overseen by McSweeney’s web editor John Warner. Other burning issues Paul Gerke will resolve through rigorous question-and-answer analysis include “Are you the drunk guy at the party?” and “Is another cheeseburger really what you need right now?”

Well, heck, it can’t do any worse than the actual Gawker book did.