I’d read this even if it got a “nice deal”

A long long time ago, when the blogosphere was young, I used to spend too much of my time reading the wit and wisdom of a young investment banker named D-Nasty. And every time I would, a little voice in my head would say, “why the hell hasn’t he written a novel?”

Flash forward some 18-odd months and the story’s a bit different (third item):

Twenty-six-year-old

investment banker-cum-Times Sunday Styles writer Dana Vachon just sold

two books to Riverhead publisher and vice president Cindy Spiegel. With

the assistance of his famously aggressive agent (and former Tina Brown

right hand) David Kuhn, Mr. Vachon signed for an eye-popping $650,000

advance.

Both will

be novels, and will be Mr. Vachon’s first forays into book-writing. Ms.

Spiegel described the first 70 pages of Mergers and Acquisitions: A

Romance, which she read before bidding, as “really funny.”

"What I
based everything on was the writing and what I think is his incredible
talent," said Ms. Spiegel. "The pages themselves were a little short on
plot — it was more of a novel of manners than of plot. I mentioned that
to the agent, and 20 minutes later I had a plot in my hand."

Thanks, David!

"It was very, very impressive," Ms. Spiegel continued.

One of my favorite D-Nasty pieces was his imagined conversation between Lindsay Lohan and Tara Reid, ca. last summer. And then there were the comics…