Off the Cuff / My Other Journal

Open Sesame!

It appears to me, through some abracadabra, the publishing media stays ahead of all tabloid events. Before we can even digest and get over our shock and awe or disgust, a book is published on the event.

Here's one: There's an author already for the astronaut-diaper-love-triangle. That was lightning quick. Too quick before I could even say diaper.

And the other, which is from today's Newsday. "A Carle Place attorney who once represented Anna Nicole Smith said the former model signed a contract in the late 1990s giving him the exclusive book and movie rights to her story."

The woman isn't even buried yet!

It takes me months to round up my characters and put my stories together. Okay, so I am not too into it or too fast or too capable, but it took even Isaac Asimov, possibly the most prolific of writers of all time, at least a month to write a novel.

I think these bookish facts point to more than a writing capability. I think the publishing community is into black arts and they are all receiving messages from the great beyond. Too bad my sixth sense is at an all time low, but there may be writers among us on this site who could jump on the money-making wagon.

Maybe we should all work on our ESPs, instead of grammar and syntax.

Where are you, the authors of Writing.com? Are there no psychics among us who can start writing the story of the next hair-raising scandal before it happens? Our site could use a millionaire or two.