Indy Author Jamie McGuire has landed a book deal with Simon & Schuster.  She has previously done quite well self-publishing her books and this is a real trend of indy authors being discovered by publishers.  Hopefully this will mark a great career move for her.

Read the story here.

Part of what stories like this indicate is that the old model of the publisher as the gatekeeper  is broken– resulting in way too few new Shakespeares and way too many new Snookies.  Way to wake up Simon & Schuster.