They Are Making Whole Books Out of Facebook Status Updates

There are books being published out there of only Twitter tweets and blog posts, so who among us wouldn’t read Facebook: The Book?  Good thing, because a literary agent is shopping around a new story based on a single Facebook status update one woman posted.

It all began when Lisa Hamilton Day and her dog ordered Chinese food.  She didn’t know just how crazy the next four minutes would be!  

She status-upped this to FB:

“Lisa Hamilton Day’s  Pomeranian raided Chinese takeout bag overnight, opened and ate a fortune cookie. Her fortune: You have strong spiritual powers, and you should develop them.”

Lucky for her, one of her FB friends was the Christy Fletcher of agency Fletcher and Company.  Fletcher saw the update and immediately thought, “There needs to be a book about this.”

Here is the synopsis: Chesty, a well-meaning but clumsy Pomeranian, ruins his owner’s dinner by eating the fortune cookie – with the fortune inside!  But little does Chesty know that it was actually a magic fortune, and the dog immediately has a spirit-dream about how to save the publishing industry.  He sets off with his tough-talking but lovable squirrel sidekick Buster to resurrect America’s interest in serious literature.  But will they make it in time?  Or will their plans be foiled by the nefarious Manny the New Media Monkey?  And how did Lisa Hamilton Day even know what the fortune said if her damn dog ate it?

You’ll just have to read the godd*mn book to find out!

Source: Publisher’s Weekly.