The site I Can Has Cheezburger (icanhascheezburger.com), which features lolcats, photos of animals with humorous, ungrammatical captions, debuted in January 2007. Three months later, Ms. McKean contacted the founders; by last August, they had chosen her over other agents, she said. The site has 1.6 million page views a day, she said, a fact noted in the book proposal she helped prepare.
After a bidding war among several publishers, Gotham Books signed her clients. Come this November, expect the I Can Has Cheezburger book on shelves. "It's going to be predominantly photos but also will enlighten readers on the key memes of lolcats," Ms. McKean said, referring to strange rules of grammar unique to the form.
By the end of this week, it will have outsold An Army of Davids and anything by Hugh Hewitt.
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