The point is that, in a culture strongly weighted against female creators, a book prize for women novelists remains a small, but important, piece of weaponry.
Projects include high profile launches by a multi-millionaire author, arguably the most famous writer in the world, and creator of a book series which has sold in excess of 400 million copies worldwide.
When Ms. Shafrir and Jessica Grose, the co-creator, signed a book contract with Hyperion to publish a collection of their best tales, it told them they had to secure permissions from both the contributors and their mothers.
Peter Levine, a leader in our movement called "civic studies," based on agency and citizens as co-creators, has a book from Oxford by this title.
The Posh Mom creators wrote a book on the posh mom revolution (everyone's got posh potential it didn't all go out the maternity ward window) and have also appear as lifestyle contributors on national television.
Last year, its creator, Ari Seth Cohen, published a book of the same name and gave Ms. Cohen a multipage spread.
Three years ago, Girls creator Lena Dunham signed a book deal for more than $3.5m for her memoir/collection of advice, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned".
An interview with one of the creators of "Agrippa, a Book of the Dead," a hybrid print-digital book with a Schrödinger's cat poem that can be read only once.
In fact it was Newlin, a nursery school teacher from Alstead, who wrote the words, which the show's creators discovered in a book called Songs for the Nursery School, first published by the Kentucky-based Willis Music in 1937.
He's witty, ribald and provides enough gallows humor for his creator to have produced a book (albeit a very slim one) titled The Wit and Wisdom of Tyrion Lannister.
