The mini-genre of books based on popular blogs shows no signs of abating, as the folks behind “Texts From Last Night” score a deal with the Gotham Books imprint of Penguin. The blog, which has been in operation for just a few months and, according to the agent who did this deal, currently averages 3.5 million hits per day, amounts to a regularly updated stream of sometimes funny, often embarrassing user-submitted text messages concerned mostly with sex and drinking.

'Twas a time when a book deal born of a blog was surprising (remember Julie and Julia?). These days it seems more and more like people start goofy Web sites practically counting on seeing their stuff between two covers.

More and more books based on popular blogs are published... are you creating something unique with your blog? Is your blog idea next in line to get a book contract? Keep building your blog and your readership and it may just be...