THE MARKET: Greg Olear’s uS & TheM is available for publication. Will it get a book deal or make the Project Publish Shortlist by September 17, 2007? If either of these happens, shares are worth $100. If neither happens, shares are worth $0.

THE AUTHOR: Dubbed “the naughty Nick Hornby” in publishing circles, Greg Olear used to be, before getting married and having kids and fleeing New York, the pseudonymous editor of an S&M web site. uS & TheM, or, The Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight is the culmination of years of what he calls, alternatively, “intensive research” and “investigative journalism,” but what is more properly termed “obsessive sexual perversity.”

THE LOWDOWN: A comic S&M romance. Your basic romantic-comedy but in addition to boy-meets-girl, boy-falls-in-love-with-girl, and boy-and-girl-live-happily-ever-after, this book includes boy-kisses-girl’s-feet, boy-is-whipped-by-girl, and boy-and-girl-get-decked-out-in-leather-and-go-to-bondage-club. Think Portnoy’s Complaint with power exchange, High Fidelity in handcuffs – or if you prefer, The Story of O, but funny, and with a happy ending.

THE BUZZ: Referred from a literary agent actively representing the book.
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