New York area blog spawns book deal, NBC sitcom
Thursday, July 28, 2005
Called the "Carrie Bradshaw" of bloggers by the New York Times, Manhattanite New Yorker Stephanie Klein's online musings in her personal blog, Greek Tragedy, has gained the attention of Hollywood and the book industry while it draws comparisons to former HBO television series, Sex and the City.
Since January 2004, Klein has written her blog which goes into the intimate details of her life as a 29-year-old professional divorced single woman living on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, one of New York City's most upscale neighborhoods. Since then her blog has become among the top 1 percent most-read blogs in the world, according to Technorati's "net attention" ratings system.
That popularity grabbed the attention of two international media conglomerates, News Corporation and NBC Universal. News Corp.'s HarperCollins book division struck a book deal with Klein valued at more than $500,000. The book is scheduled to debut in April 2006.
Comparisons to Sex and the City may continue, as NBC Universal is developing the blog-based book into a fictionalized weekly sitcom version of Klein’s life for its NBC television network.
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- Dominic Basulto. "The Carrie Bradshaw of New York bloggers" — Corante, July 27, 2005
- Stephanie Rosenbloom. "Reader, I Dated Him" — New York Times, July 24, 2005 (Registration required)
- Samantha Henig. "Judge Roberts? Yawn. Stephanie Klein? Yowza!" — Columbia Journalism Review, July 28, 2005
- Christopher London. "Greek'ed Tragedy, Stephanie Klein, the Puff Daddy of Chic Lit" — Nyc Consigliere's Corner, August 16, 2005
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