From Blogger to Author: How Bloggers Get Book Deals, and What This Means for Publishing

Speakers include:

-- Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan, author of Apartment Therapy (Bantam), and New York editor and co-founder of Apartment Therapy, the design blog the New York Times called "quietly addicting"

-- Kate Lee, literary agent at ICM, whose client list includes prominent bloggers, journalists, novelists, and memoirists

-- Michael Malice, founding editor and co-author of Overheard in New York, and subject of Ego & Hubris: The Michael Malice Story by Harvey Pekar

-- Laura Mazer, managing editor at Seal Press (an imprint of Avalon), which has published numerous titles that began as blogs 

-- Julie Powell, author of Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously (Little Brown), a book based on her blog chronicling a year cooking all the recipes in Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking

-- Robert Rummel-Hudson, author of the forthcoming memoir Schuyler's Monster (St. Martins Press) which began as blog about how his life was transformed when his daughter Schuyler was diagnosed with a rare neurological disorder that left her unable to talk

-- Rachel Kramer Bussel, moderator, Senior Editor at Penthouse Variations, writes The Village Voice's Lusty Lady column. She's edited 13 erotic anthologies and her first novel, Everything But..., will be published by Bantam in 2008