Bacon explosion inventors nail book deal
Nearly a month after taking the Internet by storm and having a write-up in The New York Times, the bacon explosion is going strong. Co-founder of the bacon explosion and Web site BBQ Addicts Aaron Chronister confirmed that a book is in the works. “The deal is nearly done. We haven’t signed the papers yet but they accepted our proposal.”
“They” would be Scribner, a division of publishing giant Simon and Schuster. Chronister didn’t offer up any details on the financial arrangement but it’s widely being reported as somewhere in the six figures.
Chronister is still in shock. “If you’d have bet me a million dollars a month ago that I’d ever be writing a book, I would have said you’re crazy… I keep thinking it’s going to taper off but it hasn’t.” Neither he nor co-founder Jason Day have ever written a book, though they did write a sample chapter to present at the book proposal. While it’s the bacon explosion that made the duo famous, the book won’t have the recipe in it. “Everybody knows that one. We want to share our own unique recipes… we’re still putting them together and deciding what to do.”
One thing Chronister knows for certain is the title: Barbecue Makes Everything Better. If all goes according to plan, expect the book on store shelves by spring of next year. In the meantime, Chronister and Day have a lot of tasting and testing to do.
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