Deborah Schoeneman Closes Book Deal
We really have to get moving on the long-form writing thing: New York magazine's Deborah Schoeneman has sold a book to Crown's new fiction imprint. The novel will focus on the dark underbelly of the NYC gossip scene (as far as we know, this dark side involves morning vomit after a night of "reporting") and Schoeneman has kindly given us some insight:
i'm drawing on my experiences writing gossip for the Observer, Page 6 (when I was a features section writer there I wrote some items) and New York. I assured Adam Moss that this would be no "The Devil Drives a Scooter" (that's his mode of transport). And as long as we're using this cliched shtick, it's not "The Devil Smokes Cigars" (Col Allen) or "The Devil Likes Chicken Soup for Lunch" (Peter Kaplan).
