Book deal for The Assimilated Negro: Negropedia

Cool people get book deals and I don't even notice when I'm not watching Publisher's Marketplace like a hawk! I looked up "blogger" and found this awesome news. Congratulations, Patrice!

October 20, 2008

Non-fiction:
Reference
The Assimilated Negro/"TAN" blogger Patrice Evans's NEGROPEDIA, an encyclopedic send-up of the modern black experience in our now "Post-Racial" world, to Brett Valley at Three Rivers Press, by Jud Laghi at LJK Literary Management (World).

Major book lust - Cooking Cute

photo via Cooking Cute

from Publishers Marketplace:

NON-FICTION: COOKING
Japanese pop-culture blogger La Carmina's COOKING CUTE, a "kawaii" (think Hello, Kitty) cookbook that brings the recent trend of personified bento boxes to an American palate, to Meg Leder at Perigee, by Lindsay Edgecombe at Levine Greenberg Literary Agency (word).


This is a perfect time to tell you that tomorrow the SXSW Panel Picker goes live, and I will be spamming you like crazy to vote for my food blogger panel (with free cupcakes!) "Nom Nom Nom: The Secrets of Successful Foodblogging." (which, if there's room, I just may ask La Carmina to be on!)