“I think some Modern Love columns work well [as books] because they are the most important story of the writer’s life, and it’s the kind of story that’s rich enough to be explored much more deeply.”
So says Modern Love editor Daniel Jones in Doree Shafrir‘s Observer piece on the Sunday Styles column that spawned nine book deals. By sheer coincidence, Amy Sutherland‘s What Shamu Taught Me About Life, Love, and Marriage, based on a column that appeared in 2006, arrived in my mailbox today. And, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go email all my friends about it now…
(One minor quibble: Susan Shapiro is described in the article as “a New York-based writing instructor whose students have managed to successfully publish in Modern Love several times,” when we like to think of her as “a New York-based mediabistro.com writing instructor” with a one-day workshop on writing and selling your first book coming up in less than two weeks. Sorry; had to get that in there.)