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Hey, How'd You Get a Book Out of That Modern Love Article?

A writer explains how the huge response to her NYT column prompted a book deal

By Michaela Cavallaro – March 12, 2008
In the spring of 2006, Amy Sutherland was looking for ways to promote her second book, Kicked, Bitten and Scratched. A former newspaper reporter, Sutherland figured she could pitch magazine and newspaper editors stories related to the book’s subject: the year she spent shadowing students ...
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