Update on the great American paleo diet romance novel

Okay, I've been given the green light to talk super secret book stuff.

Who is your publisher?

I'll be at a division of Random House called Crown.  If you don't know what the hell that means, you're in good company.  Before a month ago, I had no clue about publishers or imprints.  What's an imprint?  Good question.  They're groups within a publisher that focus on certain categories of books.  So for example, Knopf might focus on Paleo Diet Humor, while Crown focuses on Paleo Diet Romances.  Make sense?

Specific within Crown, I'm at Crown Archetype -- the place to be if you're writing a paleo diet romance specifically about legumes.  I don't have a list of who else is there, but probably the most top of mind person is Tim Ferriss and his Four Hour Work Week.  So that's pretty cool.

What's the book going to be about?

What every great romance novel is about: daily meal plans.

And LOVE.  Also, SEX.  Maybe some VIOLENCE.  And maybe a few VAMPIRES.

My editor doesn't know about the vampires yet.  That's the beautiful thing about a book deal -- now I can go write the book of my dreams.  Literally, each chapter is going to be me talking about an awesome dream I had.  I know what you're thinking...

When can I buy this masterwork?

I'll give you updates on timing as we go -- not going to peg an exact date at this point.  But moving with all due haste.  I had a long book proposal.

Who will be ghost-writing your book?

My book will be ghost-written by Jim Durant (the guy from the Colbert interview).

Is it true that you are planning to be on the cover of your romance novel?

In a loin cloth.  It's written into my contract.

And here's my initial announcement.