16.Dec.2009 Witerary Wednesdays: Texts from last night
What’s it like turning a blog into a book? Texts From Last Night has been an internet phenomenon and its success has warranted a book deal. How to transfer the digital experience onto paper? Texts From Last Night co-founder Lauren Leto talks us through it on this Witerary Wednesday.
The most surprising thing about writing the Texts From Last Night book was how hard it was for Ben and I. We were obsessed with making sure that we got the absolute funniest texts. Our book draws from the best of the website plus the best submissions that we didn’t post on the site so we could use them in the book.
We get over ten thousand texts a day so it is safe to say that we have a large pool to draw from for the book. And these texts are HILARIOUS! It was embarrassing trying to compile and edit the book in public because I’d be cracking up over a joke about pubestaches or something equally offensive.
The book has many different categories, such as “The Morning After” (the worst positions our readers have found themselves in after a night out on the town) and “Texter’s Teachings” (funny life lessons from people who probably shouldn’t be giving out advice).
We also created a “Death From Last Night” section where we eulogized our favorite deaths from 2009. The text we have for Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett is (325): I bet farrah fawcett is having words with michael jackson in heaven for stealing her thunder.
Right now we’re also working on a UK edition of the book, available to all those across the pond in Fall 2010 from the publishing house Square Peg but if you can’t wait that long, click here to pre-order the American version of the book, coming out January 26th.
Lauren Leto is co-founder and moderator of the sites http://textsfromlastnight.com and http://momsmsgs.com
