HarperCollins book deal!

HarperCollins' youth/street culture imprint It Books is publishing the book I'm writing about teen motocross star Ashley Fiolek! The book will come out in summer 2010!
I first came in to contact with Ashley about a year and a half ago, when I interviewed her for Paper magazine (big love to Paper managing ed Rebecca Carroll for setting that up!). Her story blew my mind and I knew I wanted to get much deeper in to it. Early this year, I connected with an agent at Endeavor and when I told him about Ashley, he thought it would make a great book too.
I worked like crazy to get a proposal together with the help of Ashley and her superhuman mom, Roni. Two weeks after we sent the proposal to New York, the book sold!
Ashley's story is really special and we're all super excited to be sharing it with the rest of the world. Thanks to a few people who helped make this happen: Kirby Kim, Sarah Tomlinson, Kate Hamill, Rebecca Carroll, and Debbie Adler for letting me crash on her couch in New York.
Click here to read the New York Times article about Ashley--it'll help you understand why she's such an extraordinary person. Now I guess I better get to work...
PS: I met my editor at HarperC in New York last week and she told me our book will come out alongside Spinal Tap's long awaited memoir. Sweeeeet!