Blog Leads to Book Deal for Breakup Babe

Posted on July 15, 2006

A blog that helped Seattle writer Rebecca Agiewich get over a breakup has also led her to a book deal. Agiewich has a novel out called BreakupBabe: A Novel, which is based on her Break Up Babe blog. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports that Agiewich first started the blog as an outlet to express her feelings and her frustrations about a recent breakup.

Looking for a way to get over her ex-boyfriend (the man she thought she was going to marry -- ouch) and seeking perhaps a wee outlet through which to vent her frustrations, the struggling Seattle writer began pouring her heart out -- pouring it out and then directly into a weblog.

That was back in 2002, and ever since then Agiewich not only has blogged her way through the ups and downs of that particularly pugnacious parting of ways, she also has blogged her way through a variety of dates and the breakups that followed and, more importantly, blogged her way right into a novel. (Yes, a novel. Take that, you unappreciative ex-boyfriend!)

The article also includes an interview where Agiewich recommends blogs to writers and to people suffering from a recent break-up. She also listed her favorite blogs which include Girl Gone Mad, I Am Shmool, Faster Than Kudzu, Pink Is the New Blog and Seattlest.

BreakupBabe: A Novel is published by Ballantine Books. We like the comic styled cover.

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