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January 31, 2007

Can The Wii Workout Reality Show Be Far Behind?

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Mickey DeLorenzo, the man who lost weight by playing Wii Sports every day for six weeks, has turned his clever little blog post into a full-fledged media onslaught. He's been interviewed by the BBC, NBC 10, the Inky, the India Times and, least importantly, me.

And now he has a book deal. He has a book deal from a company that one represented Kafka and Sartre.

I'm assuming the book will be titled Can You Believe I Got A Freaking Book Deal Out Of This? The Wii Sports Diet, but that's just conjecture.

This is awesome. Sometimes things happen that just make you realize what a fantastic, ridiculous world we live in, and this is one of them. Lovely.


Wii Sports Experiment, from Digg to book deal [WiiNintendo.net]
Jan. 19: How I Learned To Stop Running And Just Play Wii Sports

Posted by D-Mac on January 31, 2007 11:44 AM
Posted to Awesomeness , Books , Nintendo Wii

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Comments

Having an agent is not the same thing as having a book deal. Agents don't pay you; you pay them. After they sell your book. Doesn't sound like they have yet.

Posted by: Caroline at February 1, 2007 11:59 AM

Hey it's me, the Wii Sports Experiment dude.

Thanks for keeping up with the story it just keeps going, I think I'm on my 16 minutes of "fame" now...

Anyway, I have a writer from Men's Health, an agent, and we officially signed a deal with a GREAT NYC publisher (Mums the word for the moment). The book should be out later summer if all goes well.

My fiance and I were in The New York Times today (3/15/07)(page G8) if you wanna check it out.

Posted by: Mickey DeLorenzo at March 15, 2007 01:02 PM