A "beauty contest," in the publishing world, is when multiple editors within a publisher have to present themselves to an author, who then decides the best one for their project. It's seen as a nerve-wracking, slightly degrading process. Sarah Silverman, of course, just sold her book—rather, her idea of a book of "humorous essays," which are all the rage these days, from Nora Ephron to Sloane Crosley to Tina Fey—for $2.5 million to HarperCollins. As the Observer reports, David Hirshey won out as her editor. Yay! Now he—whoops, she—just has to write the book, which was supposedly pitched without so much as a proposal.