College Student Finance Guru Blogs His Way to Book Deal
Zac Bissonnette is living the blogger’s dream, getting paid to write
for TheDailyBeast.com and AOL’s WalletPop.com, and now landing a
book deal that may be just the ticket for helping him weather a
dismal job market in one of the worst recessions in history
(“Student Morphs Blog Into Book Deal,” Amherst Bulletin, Jan. 2,
2009).
Publishers Weekly recently announced that Bissonnette, a sophomore
majoring in legal studies at the University of Massachusetts, is
busy drafting a book for Portfolio, a publishing subsidiary of the
Penguin Group, that will chronicle how parents and their children
pay for college.
Scheduled for publication in 2010, the same year Bissonnette will
graduate, the book will compare the value of a public versus a
private college education, and, as Bissonnette explains, will
critically examine what happens when students take on too much debt
from student loans.
Bissonnette, who is paying his own way through college, says he
began blogging in high school from a library computer.
Since then, his personal interest in finances has spiraled into a
successful side business; after his blogs were picked up by
WalletPop, for which he is now an editor, and The Daily Beast, he
was featured on CNN’s “American Morning” for an editorial he wrote
concerning President-elect Barack Obama’s economic policy and its
effect on student loans.
He got his book deal shortly after his November CNN appearance.
Bissonnette said, “I came up with this idea, got an agent, and he
put this together.”
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