Was going to post about something else; it'll wait. Just got the news that fellow food-blogger Molly Wizenberg, by day a publicist at the UW Press, by night the creative genius behind the award-winning blog Orangette, has signed a contract with Simon & Schuster for a "narrative cookbook." Dream-come-true fantastic! Congratulations, Molly!
The deal is real enough for Molly (everyone calls her Molly) to give up her day job and plan to spend most of the coming year writing. Orangette and Cornichon were among half a dozen or so featured in a Seattle Times story about local food bloggers earlier this year, which explains, perhaps, why an orange and a pickle are sharing a platter in the illustration.
Orangette won "Best Overall Food Blog" in 2005, when the competition was run by another local blogger, Kate Hopkins of The Accidental Hedonist. This year's awards will be determined by a local advertising consortium called WellFed Network; nominees to be announced any day now.
Congrats Molly!!! Let me know how I can help get the word out on Eastside Spin at http://eastsidespin.com! Thanks again for all the great stuff, ~ Lisa
Fabulous! A year off from work - that's one heck of a hefty advance for a cookbook!
Aww, thank you, Ronald! This is definitely dream-come-true stuff. I'm still pinching myself, trying to make sure it's not a dream...
Thanks so much for the congrats and cheers!