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Book Keeping: Journo's Column Begets Book Deal, Sitcom

Finding the right agent (after three tries) and juggling advances and day jobs brought this newspaper columnist's book to life

By Rachel Kramer Bussel – March 7, 2007
Third time was the charm for author Jane Ganahl's Naked on the Page: The Misadventures of My Unmarried Midlife (Viking, February 2007), since it was her third book agent who wound up selling her book to Viking for a $50,000 advance. Ganahl weaves her story of dating and single motherhood during a year of writing the "Single Minded" column for The San Francisco Chronicle. Along the way, she kisses and tells, tangles publicly with Rush Limbaugh, fields love and hate mail, and gets advice from her father and daughter, along with a who's who of San Francisco literati including: ChronicleChronicle<...

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