well damn woman, that is awesome! I'm almost crying for you!
i am going to cry. i remember way back in Tulsa when you quit your job, how much i admired the size of your balls (sorry sarah's mom). and now, here you are. i am so happy for you sarah brown.
I'm not crying, but that's awesome. Meeting Gloria Steinem and getting a book deal all in the same month is one hell of a roll.
Congratulations!
You're amazing! Good luck and congratulations. You were born for this entertaining via words business.
Fuck yeah.
oooh... THAT publisher? cool. the gallery of regrettable food is one of my most favorite things, like, ever. and now your cringe book will be my new favoritest thing. congratulations to you, miss sarah.
Fuckin' A, Peterman. Fuckin' A.
Oh, that is a very VERY good feeling. CONGRATS!!
Tonight is like the best night EVER for the Internet people!
OMG. I want details, Brown, DETAILS.
OMG YAY! CONGRATULATIONS, GIRL! It's been a long time coming.
Jesus, I just had the realization that I've been reading your blog for almost five years now.
holy crap.
now THAT's awesome.
Ive been waiting on this for years....I knew something like this would happen. You deserve it and more....Fate is finally paying its dues to the one who most of all earned it
One long-time lurker, heaving herself out of the shadows to do a dorky congratulatory dance in your honor. Good job, you!
Congratulations!
Sarah Brown, you sho' nuff do be cookin'. ; ) Seriously. Some amazing energy landed over wherever you were born on...the day you were born. ; ) It's so wonderfully strange to be so happy for someone I've never once met in person or talked to, but I am SO happy for you. It's obvious that you really are one of the good ones, and nothing makes me happier than to see people like you get an awesome break.
I KNEW this would be a book. I KNEW someone in that city would have the sense to channel your vibe and your brain and your idea.
In summation, two things: my life has been a continual cringe, so feel free to call on me...and in semi-related fashion, I think crying in the bathroom at work in a GOOD way is the best outcome ever.
Congratulations, Sarah.
Holy shit Sarah Brown, life's just a bowl of cherries, ain't it. One day you're partyin' with eighties rock stars and groundbreaking feminists and the next day you've got a god damn book deal.
I am seething with envy, but so very proud of my fellow Okie. Good work.
holyfuckinshit that is so awesome
you must use the picture of you and dee snyder for the back cover
Congrats - so frigging great.
This book is going to be OFF THE HANGER!
Congrats!! Just for that, I'm breaking out the Judy Blume Diary, circa 1982-1985. Yippee!
OMG
You are so fucking hawesome.
I bow.
I scrape.
The genuflection. It's all for you.
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!
You started something that is getting HUGE, you deserve every bit of wonderment that is coming your way!
wohoooo! CONGRATULATIONS and YESSSS! :) that's awesome!
Wow...that is so fantastic!
I'd buy it!!!!
Congratulations!!! I'm all flushed for you! How completely exciting!
Well, hot damn! This is fantastic news! Go Sarah Brown!
If you roll one more natural 20, Sarah Brown, I'm making sure that die's not loaded. ;) Congrats, it is long-awaited and long-deserved. xoxoxo
"natural 20" nice.
congratulations, Sarah.
I wish you many more successes. You are an inspiration, and that's not just lip service. I have to echo others' comments about how happy I personally feel for someone whom I've never met or spoken to.
Now go get crunk.
Congratulations Sarah. Fucking fantastic news
Congratulations Sarah Brown. If anyone deserves it, it's you.
I'm going to be one of those losers who finally decides to delurk to say; Holy. Fucking. Shit.
Awesome.
AHH!! I almost cried for you, I was so excited to read this!
Seriously, you deserve it. Enjoy it all!
You are the coolest!!! That is so effing awesome. I want to be Sarah Brown when I grow up. If I ever grow up.
Hooray!
Sweet!
I'm usually shy and all lurky-like, but this kind of excitement is emboldening: CONGRATULATIONS! I knew it would happen for you.
HOLY that is FANTASTIC.
Congrats.
That is amazingly awesome and well-deserved news. Congrats!
To the important publishing person giving out book deals to the worthy: Hello friend, are you reading my mind?
Sarah Brown, I am happy for you. I consider this a win for my difficult-to-define-yet-very-real team.
Also I totally agree about using the Dee Snyder photo. In an important capacity.
Living the dream, baby...
AWESOME!
I'm so happy for you gorgeous, and surprisingly, not in that "I'm mostly envious" sort of way.
It's just pure unfettered glee for you and YOU.
Congrats Sarah Brown! You rock!
Awesome. Well done Sarah Brown. I look forward to reading it!
Congratulations! I'm so happy for you! I can't wait to read it when it comes out!
I knew this had to be coming, you're too good at this writing thing. Congratulations, Sarah!
That's fucking awesome!
Congratulations! I'm so happy for you!
Congratulations! Wonderful, wonderful- we will be waiting for the 'click here to buy now' moment!
HOLY FUCK! that is awesome. you rule.
also, i will be in new york next weekend and will email you my number forthwith.
Carolina up there , I just had a similar thought. I have been reading you for four years. I thought, "Our little girl is all grown up!!"
But actually you are just really inspiring because after I graduate I'd like to move to New York and have a dazzling life like you. You are the motherfucking shit.
That's amazing news. Bravo!
I'm running out of people to tell, the news is THAT awesome. My entire extended family and some guy at Walgreens say CONGRATULATIONS!
Holy shit, that's awesome. Good job.
Congratulations! That is completely awesome and you deserve it!!!
That is amazing! Good for you.
I'm extra excited because the chance of me getting to see Cringe in person are pert near slim to none. Yay!
that's fantastic... congrats!
I hate to jump on the de-lurking bandwagon, but I must. I have been reading and laughing out loud at your site forever. I actually have tears in my eyes, to see someone reach such a longed for and well deserved goal. Heartiest congratulations from another before-now-unheard-from lurker.
Yay!
I'm a long-time (2-3 years?) lurker that had to come out of hiding to say congratulations! You're such an exciting and engaging writer--you absolutely deserve this. Now, make it count SB!
--JP
That is AMAZING! Congratulations! I loved the clips of the 'performances' on the news a while back, and I always enjoy your stories from your teenage years - so I know I will enjoy (and buy!) the book when it comes out!
Congrats again on your BOOK DEAL! YAY!
Freakin' congratulations!
As sixty-some people have already said, congratulations! That is freaking fantastic.
Very, very awesome. Congratulations!!!
I read your blog obsessively, but rarely comment. I thought however, that this particular occasion was cause for a CONGRATULATIONS! :-) You are my hero, Sarah Brown.
Seeing that I was lucky enough to be the first person you saw when you found out, I really should have bought you your chicken soup. I owe you.
And YAAAAYYYY!!
Woo hoo! You are a GENIUS. And now you finally get to MAKE MONEY OFF IT.
Plus, it's an infinitely expandable genre--just like Chicken Soup for the Soul. You will make MILLIONS. Yeah, baby. Millions.
It's about goddamned time. Well done, Sarah.
i think when the book comes out you need to give a copy to the "back-up tapes" boy on the subway stairs, with a note inside... and it's all come full circle i think :)
It was about effing time!!
congrats
You're on the list! Congratulations
OH MY SWEET LORD I AM SO PROUD OF YOU! You will soon be on this page!
http://www.randomhouse.com/crown/authors.html
You are such a bad ass, lady.
OH MY GOD!!!!!!!
That is so fucking amazing. I absolutely cannot wait to read the official Cringe book.
Good on you, Sarah Brown.
Oh, I forgot to add:
Steve Holt!
hurrah! i can't wait to read it and hear details. congratulations!
Congrats! Maybe this is why I had a dream last night that you and I were in a parade. Which is kind of weird since I don't know you. I also can't explain why I was carrying a cardboard box in the parade.
This makes me terrifically happy for you! I can't imagine it happening to a better person, or on a better topic. (And would I sound too media-whoreish if I said "What an awesome publisher!" I think I will, so I won't.)
I am so proud of you!!!!!! I totally feel like a mom saying that - but it is absolutely true.
I'm so happy for you, Sarah. And I'm not the slightest bit surprised. If I find your drawing of my mom as a giant blueberry, will you include it in the book? Congratulations. :)
FANTASTIC!
In Aggieland that deserves a big:
WHOOP!!!
Congratulations Sarah!!!! I'm so proud. You have to send out a family e-mail, I'm kinda surprised your mom hasn't already, and tell us ALL about it!
fucking HOORAY! i'm so happy for you! i can't wait to buy it!
huzzah, Sarah! Can't wait for more info. Congratulaions!
i've been telling people for years that you rock.
i'm so very glad the important people finally noticed too.
Congratulations! I too have been reading here for a few years and can attest to the SB talent. You rock, girl.
Oh, and I think your jacket photo should be the one from the bathroom.
I'll buy that book and I'll give it as gifts too.
Way to go! I am working at the Los Angeles Public Library now and as soon as that book is done I am going to buy that book and put it in the collection.
Thank you all so, so much. These comments have made my day.
I'm in Tulsa. I was driving around earlier and four radio stations were playing CCR all at the same time. Welcome home.
Bien hecho, chica.
I can't wait to pre-order my copy on Amazon--way to follow your heart. I will just love sharing this with the teen girls I work with. The love the cringe-factor!
BOOYAH, MOTHERFUCKA! My only surprise about the book deal is that it took the publishing world this long to find you. I couldn't be more proud.
"sarah brown is what you want to know about" - googlism.
Congratulations, Sarah.
i haven't commented in a long time, but i still read. this was inevitable. congratulations.
COMMENCE WORLD TAKEOVER BY OFFICIAL HEARTBREAKER #1.
so happy for you.
CONGRATULATIONS! You deserve it!
YEAH! Hell yeah!
Fantastic :)
Oh, Sarah Brown, I'm so happy. And teary. And hoping you are totally practising your signature in preparation for all those autographs you'll be signing. For me. Would it be weird if I bought, like, a hundred copies?
Delurking as well to say congrats.
I know how elusive that sentence can be, and I am thrilled for you!
Can't wait to get all the details.
YAYAYAYAYAYAY congrats sarah b! not much more i can say that hasn't already been said, but being an editor, i know how amazing and life-changing it is for someone to publish a book. my best to you! congrats!
wow. congratulations.
finally, the whole world can know about you!
um. best EVER. i don't even know you, but i want to give you a huge squeezy hug. good job, lady.
Y'know, I just realized that you (or someone else) could videotape some Cringe bits and put them up on YouTube (or Vimeo). Do you know if anyone has? As I recall, the only problem with this might be sound issues. But surely you have some A/V geeks with that crowd, right?
This would be an excellent appetite whetter as we wait for the book. Say...a one minute clip each week? (If you can pare something down to that small.) You could become a multimedia empire!!
Wishing you well. Looking forward to more success on your part.
Congratulations!! I have been reading your blog for a few months now and I just want to say you make the work days in my dead-end job go by oh so much faster. Keep on rocking.
Look at me delurking (decloaking?).
This is amazing news! I'm thrilled for
you, though not surprised. Will I be able to
TiVo you on Oprah's couch? (Will I have a TiVo
by then?). This is so cool! KUDOS and CONGRATS!!
You Rock, SB! (Now please do some bits on TAL?) :)
You go, SB!
wow- congrats! took long enough for a published to snatch up your talent. you are going to be a world famous author! wait- i think you already are, you just weren't getting $ for it (this site)!
Sarah, I am so happy for you!!!! I can't believe I didn't post sooner, but I think I was still to FILLED WITH JEALOUSY to say anything nice. But seriously, you deserve it, you've worked so hard!!
PS the other day I saw a post by some girl who was trying to come up with a name for her brand new just thought of project which would be people reading on a stage from their childhood diaries. I suggested she call it Cringe.
That's awesome! congrats! I really enjoy your blog.
Well, fuck, gerl. You are among the living and writing and paid. Well done and so bravely deserved. Karma ain't always a bitch, is she? Good things to you for long times, TS
Congratulations on the book deal!
This is weird, but I looked at the Flickr picture on your sidebar and I noticed that your parents appear to have the same grass in their yard as my grandparents from Bartlesville have. I've been obsessed with that grass since I was young. I guess it's common in Oklahoma.
Congrats! I mean, umm, congratulations! HOORAY FOR YOU, SARAH BROWN!!! We've always known you were the coolest person on the Internet, and we now we can say we knew you when. We're all so very, very happy for you! I take it cousin Shiteater won't have a copy of your book on his/her coffee table?
They're totally the wrong kind of publisher for my education book, but once you've got all the literary connections, I might ask for your help in getting mine published as well. Don't forget us little people.
Congrats! Can't wait to read it!
That is awesome. Congratulations.
Comming out of lurking to say... CONGRADULATIONS, let us know when we can shell out a few bucks for it! Realy, congrats.