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Blogger Wins $300,000 Book Deal 2 Months After Launching Blog
Christian Lander, created the funny blog, stuffwhitepeoplelike.com, and won a book deal with major publisher, Random House, for an advance fee of $300,000, just two months after starting the blog.
Stuff White People Like is a blog that takes satirical aim at the interests of North American left-leaning, city-dwelling white folk. The site attracted almost 15 million visitors in a little over two months.
The blog was created in January 2008 by white Canadian, Christian Lander, and co-authored with his Filipino Canadian friend, Myles Valentin, after Valentin teased Lander about his watching the HBO television series The Wire. The blog became popular very quickly, registering over 300,000 daily hits and over 40 million total hits by the end of September 2008.
The Stuff White People Like book was released on July 1, 2008, and has made several bestseller lists.
Source: Why Blog? Reason No. 92: Book Deal - The New York Times, Mar. 30, 2008.
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