The author of the short story “Cat Person,” which became a viral phenomenon after appearing in The New Yorker this month, has received a seven-figure book deal, according to a person with knowledge of the deal.

A collection from Kristen Roupenian, whose debut story in The New Yorker became the magazine’s second most-read article of 2017 despite being published in the Dec. 11 issue, will be published by Scout Press in 2019.

The collection, “You Know You Want This,” is the first of a two-book deal that includes an untitled novel that was acquired by Alison Callahan, the vice president and executive editor at Scout Press, from Jenni Ferrari-Adler at Union Literary.

It is almost as unusual for a collection of short stories to earn such a high sum on the market as it is for a single story to receive the attention that “Cat Person” did. Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker’s fiction editor, said of the reaction to the story, “We have not seen anything like that with fiction.”