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Some writers spend years polishing their novel, hoping against hope that some publisher will like it and sign them to a book deal.
Or, you could throw some jokes up on Twitter and have a book deal come to you.
That's what happened, in essence, to The Bureau Chiefs, the collection of friends from across the country who launched the very funny Twitter feed Fake AP Stylebook — a parody of grammar rules and journalistic usage that now boasts more than 200,000 followers.
The Bureau Chiefs — one of whom, Anna Neatrour, works in digital media at the Marriott Library at the University of Utah and is executive director of the Utah Library Association — have parlayed their Twitter success into their first book, a hilariously inaccurate style guide called Write More Good, which arrives at bookstores nationwide today.
In today's Culture Vulture column, I interview Neatrour and Mark Hale, one of the editors of Write More Good, about their improbable rise from Twitter jokesters to published authors.