Monday, October 02, 2006

Bourgeois Wife

I see that the excellent La Petite Anglaise blogger has blagged a substantial book deal. Good for her - she deserves it not only for her amusing and engaging style but also the commitment she has shown to maintaining her blog from Day 1, when presumably she did not have 100,000 monthly readers.

One assumes, particularly with the birth and early success of The Friday Project, that publishers regularly scan the blogosphere for notable and saleable writing. What a thankless task as most of it is dire.

Do they need help? If so here's a heads up. Bourgeois Wife is in a similiar female, navel gazing vein to La Petite Anglaise; I thought it was hilarious though sadly she only maintained it for 8 months or so.

In her own words:

"Bourgeois Wife: She'd like to see a bit more action - in a social, rather than a sexual sense, what with being married and all. Terms and conditions apply. The interest value of posts may go down as well as up.

Do you buy your vegetables at the farmers' market, or go to dinner parties where people use words like demagogy? Then you get to be bourgeois, too!"

The archives remain online, and are well worth a read - Bourgeois Wife - it is a shame that it is discontinued but if you are a publisher go and chuck a few quid at her so we can start to read her ramblings once more.