Beginner’s Luck

The most impressive detail in the Sunday Styles piece on Same Sex in the City co-authors Lauren Levin (left) and Lauren Blitzer isn’t that the two landed their first book deal (as WWD reported last month) at 24, but that Levin’s scored a contract to write a dating guide for lesbians less than a year after coming out. Though that actually could work to her advantage, as she’s perhaps still in just the right frame of mind to connect with the intended audience of women who put down The Straight Girl’s Guide to Sleeping With Chicks feeling slightly unsatiated. Not to mention how much fun she’ll have doing all the necessary research…

(photo: Michael Nagle/NYT)

Create a social media strategy, launch your campaign, and track the results in our Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting February 16. The online event and workshop will feature speakers including The Onion‘s Baratunde Thurston (left), Facebook’s Morin Oluwole, and bitly’s Tim Devane. Register now.