What? No Red-Hot Demand for Picture Captioning Coffee Table Books?

Nothing raises Attaturk's self-delusional hackles like other Bloggers financial success.

In June a former Senate aide, Jessica Cutler, whose blog documenting her sexual exploits with politicos dominated Capitol gossip in the spring, sold a Washington-focused novel to Hyperion for an advance well into six figures, said Kelly Notaras of Hyperion.

Meanwhile, a British call girl with the pseudonym Belle de Jour, who had created a sensation with a blog about her experiences, has signed a six-figure deal with Warner Books to publish a memoir, said Amy Einhorn, executive editor at Warner Books who bought the book.

Ms. Einhorn said that after she heard about the blog, "I downloaded the whole site, read it that night and then bought the book."

In October Ana Marie Cox, editor of wonkette.com, a racy, often wry Washington-based blog, sold her first novel, "Dog Days," a comic tale with a political context, to Riverhead Books. She said she received a $275,000 advance.

What the fuck?

Apparently, most of us bloggers are missing two things necessary for good book deals.

1. A constant stream of sophomoric wang & homosexuality jokes (I only do the first twice a week, and the latter -- well, other than poking GOP balloons, never)

2. A nice rack, and a willingness to write about our ass-fucking experiences (the literal as opposed to the metaphorical ones).

Okay, in just those two numbered paragraphs so many wisecracks are possible.

So far, so bad.

It gets more depressing...

Kate Lee, an assistant at International Creative Management talent agency in New York, has become a kind of one-woman blog boutique, surfing for the best writers online and suggesting they work with her to develop and sell a book...Ms. Lee also represents, among others, Glenn Reynolds, a University of Tennessee law professor and political blogger known as Instapundit.

Oh, "call me Ishmael" that will be one hell of a quality novel. Glenn Reynold's "Tale of Two Cities"

"Lileks says it's the best of times." (hyperlink) Indeed.

"Dan Rather uses fake documents to say it is the worst of times." (hyperlink) Sigh.

The end.

"Okay, I'm done. Give me my $150,000!"