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Will “Dirty Cookbook” Win Project Publish?
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THE MARKET: Jason Clampet’s Dirty Cookbook is one of five finalist book proposals in Project Publish. On Oct. 9, editors at Touchstone Books of Simon & Schuster will award one finalist a publishing deal. Will Jason walk away with the grand prize? If he does, shares are worth $100. If he doesn’t, shares are worth $0.
THE AUTHOR: Jason Clampet is the author of the recently published Rough Guide to Baja California (Penguin) and the forthcoming children’s book Papi’s Bodega (Hyperion), the latter of which he co-wrote with his wife, well-known author Veronica Chambers. Jason has written for publications as diverse as Architectural Record and Shonen Jump and is currently the online editor of the travel website Frommers.com.
THE LOWDOWN: Dirty Cookbook is an outrageously funny tale of sexual misadventures, cooked up with some of the most delicious dinners imaginable. It’s also an irreverent exposé of the battle of the sexes from the perspective of a man starved for true love. Paul Chambers and his bachelor friends have discovered one of the best-kept secrets of dating: food. Since few women can resist the romantic allure of a wonderful meal prepared by a man, Paul and his friends have made it their mission to perfect every recipe and record the greatest hits of their cooking and dating lives in their shared Dirty Cookbook. When Paul falls for Victoria, their relationship cruises along fine until Victoria’s meddling friend discovers the Dirty Cookbook, and Victoria learns that Paul’s been feeding her stale lines alongside otherwise delectable dinners. To rescue what he had with Victoria, Paul will risk his friendships, his career, and every hope of happiness he thought the Dirty Cookbook promised.
THE BUZZ: Referred from a literary agent actively representing the book.
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| PREDICTIONS | CURRENT VALUE | TODAY |
| “Dirty Cookbook” Wins | $19.22/ $0.00 | (closed) |
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last comment by: Lafemmenikita, Sep 19 2007 @ 04:09 PDT
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The expanded excerpt is really funny. The brunch with the Moms adds a sweet element to the sexier parts of the novel. This is so "About A Boy." I hope it wins because Nick Hornby doesn’t write fast enough for me.
last comment by: flysi, Sep 19 2007 @ 05:09 PDT
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Although I’m not a foodie, I found myself drawn in by the idea of these guys who are so obsessive about the intersection of cusine and sex. Love the reference to Leon Spinx too.
last comment by: cacs, Sep 20 2007 @ 01:09 PDT
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It doesn’t work for me, although I can see it as a rom-com movie. I like the incongruity between the guys’ elevated culinary chitchat and their down-and-dirty goal of scoring with women. But since the narrator is a male and the audience for this kind of book is women, I don’t think it’ll have a market. The 1st chapter with the lurid tales of copulating Jane are too exaggerated to be credible and they paint the narrator in an unfavorable light, alienating any female reader. It seems too snarky, even though I guess that’s just the set-up before the narrator goes all soft and romantic.
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