{"id":20018,"date":"2017-12-18T14:52:13","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T13:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/12\/18\/cat-person-authors-debut-book-sparks-flurry-of-international-publishing-deals\/"},"modified":"2017-12-18T14:52:13","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T13:52:13","slug":"cat-person-authors-debut-book-sparks-flurry-of-international-publishing-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=20018","title":{"rendered":"Cat Person author&#039;s debut book sparks flurry of international publishing deals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following her viral short story hit, Kristen Roupenian\u2019s You Know You Want This has been sold to Cape in the UK, with the US auction said to be topping $1mKristen Roupenian, whose short story about a relationship turned sour, Cat Person, set the internet on fire last week, has sold her debut book to a UK publisher for a high five-figure sum, with an auction in the US now understood to be topping $1m (\u00a3748,000).Published in the New Yorker, which said the response to the story had been \u201crecord-breaking\u201d, Roupenian\u2019s Cat Person recounts student Margot\u2019s relationship with the older Robert. Initially conducted through text messages, it eventually becomes physical \u2013 \u201cIt was a terrible kiss, shockingly bad; Margot had trouble believing that a grown man could possibly be so bad at kissing\u201d \u2013 before Margot withdraws and Robert shows his true colours. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2017\/dec\/18\/cat-person-authors-debut-book-sparks-flurry-of-international-publishing-deals\" target=\"_blank\">Cat Person author&#039;s debut book sparks flurry of international publishing deals<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following her viral short story hit, Kristen Roupenian\u2019s You Know You Want This has been sold to Cape in the UK, with the US auction said to be topping $1mKristen Roupenian, whose short story about a relationship turned sour, Cat Person, set the internet on fire last week, has sold [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}