Seems like everybody is getting a book deal or having a book release or signing another contract... but me.
Honestly, Kim Kardashian is "writing a novel". Snooki wrote one, right?
That actor who makes the dry funny movies, argh, I can't even think of his name, but HE wrote one. Loren Conrad ... yeah, most people have already forgotten who that is too. Those are just the names I can come up with without the benefit of Google or Amazon. Novels. "Written" by nonwriters. Promoted by people who are all promo. Is that what publishers are counting on to save the fate of paper publishing?
Meanwhile back in the world of writers who have poured their hearts and souls and minds into the work and pain and joy of writing...