From blog to book, chasing the thin line

In 2000, writer Wendy McClure started a web log (or blog), in part to chart her weight loss. Several years later, she got an offer from an agent to turn it into a book. Thus was born ''I'm Not the New Me" (Riverhead Books, paperback, 308 pp., $14), which is part comic memoir, part diary, and part social commentary. Along ... (Full article: 867 words)

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