RC: How did the relationship with Random House come about?
LN: Luck, luck and more luck. It's a shame I didn't buy a lottery ticket that day. Early in September, I recieved an e-mail through my Web site from an agent, Jenny Bent, in New York. Jenny said she spotted Idiot Girls on Amazon.com when she went to look up her client's book (God Save the Sweet Potato Queens by Jill Connor Browne) and saw my Sponsored Results "advertisement." I did call her to say thank you and explain that I already had an agent, Nina Graybill. Oddly enough, Jenny knew Nina quite well and had worked at Nina's firm a short while before. Jenny called Nina and they decided to co-agent. Jenny had just sold a book that was similar to Idiot Girls and was confident that she knew editors who would be interested. We began working on the book proposal for the second book, Autobiography of a Fat Bride. That took a month of diligent writing, re-writing and more writing. When Jenny was happy with it, she sent the book proposal—and the iUniverse copy of Idiot Girls—out to editors on a Monday. In three days, we had an offer from Random House for not only Fat Bride, but Idiot Girls, too.