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[Pathos]

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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Former supermodel Tyra Banks has signed a deal for a series of fantasy novels about the world of modeling, her publishers said on Tuesday.

Banks, the host of reality competition "America's Next Top Model" and whose own TV talk show is set to end this year, will write three books, Delacorte Press said.

She has already finished the first, called "Modelland", which is about a teen girl in a make-believe society at an academy for exceptional models called Intoxibellas. It will be published in the summer of 2011.

Writing on her web site, Banks said the book was "for all the girls and guys who want a lot more FANTASY in their lives … and some fierceness and magic, romance and mystery, crazy and wild adventures, and yeah, some danger too."

Publishers Delacorte Press described "Modelland" as showcasing issues ranging from relationships to body image and empowering women of all ages.

Banks, 36, announced in January that she would be ending the Emmy-award winning "The Tyra Banks Show" later this year after five seasons to launch her own production company Bankable Studios.

She is also the host, judge and executive producer of "America's Next Top Model".

Dear god, she's got published as a fantasy author. *facepalm* And the book sounds absolutely terribad.

[Duke 2.0]

 Look, Tyra, I know modeling is your thing and I'm cool with you sticking with it. But mayhaps you are taking it a little too far? I mean, not everything you contribute to society needs to be about modeling.

[Pathos]

Look, Tyra, I know modeling is your thing and I'm cool with you sticking with it. But mayhaps you are taking it a little too far? I mean, not everything you contribute to society needs to be about modeling.

Agreed. If she wants to write fantasy books, good on her, we need more authors. But the whole modelling thing is just plain old moronic.

Celebration and empowerment of women my hairy British arse.

[Mishy]

Makes some easy cash. Anyone else would do it if they could.

[ein]

Makes some easy cash. Anyone else would do it if they could.

And this, my friend, will lead to eventual downfall of artistic capabilities as we know them.

Anyway, the first word I saw was Modelland.
Then I closed the spoiler and will never mention this again.

[Pathos]

Anyway, the first word I saw was Modelland.
Then I closed the spoiler and will never mention this again.

Yeah, man. God damn double ls really piss me off, too.

[Cheeetar]

I don't know how she became convinced this was a good idea for a book.

[piecewise]

*sigh*

Well I'm going to go drink antifreeze.

[smigenboger]

Tyra Banks has inspired me to fulfil my life-long dream of writing a fantasy-setting about a hair-stylist who is enlisted into the Dragon Wars. With only a pair of scissors, a small blade, and can of shaving cream, and his trusty band of best friends, he will face the perils of coming of age

[ein]

Meh, I already wrote a story about a wangsty teenage girl who gets teleported to a fantasy world, finding out that she's the chosen one and princess of the kingdom and thrust into a battle of epic proportions between the pure and just forces of good and the unholy forces of evil.
I published it on LiveJournal.

[Vector]

Hmm... there was also some crazy model/actress/something with a PhD in math and a major theorem named after her, who wrote what seems to be a rather craptastic book...

Yeah, her.

Bloody ridiculous, if you ask me.  I heard about it on NPR, and the chapter on integers is focused around breath mints and kissing guys.  Yes, that's right.  Mintegers.  Yeargh.

[Duke 2.0]

Meh, I already wrote a story about a wangsty teenage girl who gets teleported to a fantasy world, finding out that she's the chosen one and princess of the kingdom and thrust into a battle of epic proportions between the pure and just forces of good and the unholy forces of evil.
I published it on LiveJournal.

Do note that she beats the great evil through a modeling contest. And through being herself and having sass and playing the part and showing her true self and struttin' 'it', she wins.

[ein]

Oh yeah, forgot about that part.
And the true love.

[smigenboger]

That interview'd person seems to have good intentions, but with all the burdens of media mixed in with it. It's sort of an 'if you can't be em, join em' approach. I'd say it's good for the girls who thrive in that gender stereotype, and the ones with more sense will look at that and scoff

[MrWiggles]

Tyra Banks is literate?

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