Writer Walker Lamond is Ready to Share Rules for My Unborn Son

As the past few years have taught us, there's serious money to be made in turning a much-hyped blog into a book (see: Stuff White People Like). Or, you know, at least a shot at converting internet fame into real-life notoriety. And writer/documentarian/renaissance man Walker Lamond aims to do just that by cribbing the choicest morsels from his Rules for My Unborn Son blog and compiling them into a book bearing the same name, due out Oct. 27.

The website is sagacious in parts, pithy in others, and contains a collection of axioms and chestnuts like, "You don't get to choose your own nickname," and, "When in doubt, wear a tie." Peppered throughout are vintage pictures, and some "required listening" streaming music tracks featuring the likes of Wilco, Bing Crosby and Bruce Springsteen.

The blog has already had praise heaped upon it by publications like GQ, which called it a "manifesto of Cary Grant-style masculinity," so the jump to the printed page is pretty much a no-brainer. "Boys need rules," says the website's "about the book" section. "One man's instructions for raising a thoughtful, adventurous, honest, hardworking, self-reliant, well-dressed, well-read, well-mannered young gentleman." No one can accuse Lamond of setting the bar low.

Related links:

RulesForMyUnbornSon.net

Rules for My Unborn Son on Tumblr

Wired: Interview with Author Walter Lamond

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