Victoria Strauss -- News of the Weird: Author's For Reality Show
No, I haven't lost my apostrophe smarts. "Author's For Reality Show" is a direct quote from a Craigslist ad posted today. Can you believe it? Yet ANOTHER author reality show is threatening to rear its pointy head. A brief recap of the others, both funct and defunct: - Book Millionaire (defunct) - Publish My Book! (possibly funct, but no one really seems to know--this is the only one of the lot that has even a whiff of credibility) - The Ultimate Author (apparently funct) - American Book Factory (defunct) This one makes five. According to Craigslist, Healeth Publisher , "an Independent Publisher located in New York with satellite offices in Atlanta and LA," is looking for contestants for a new reality show featuring writers, to be conducted in conjunction with The Next TV , an Internet TV and radio network (I think the radio part, which calls itself U Tube Radio, might have a small trademark issue). Getting published is a very difficult challenge that mo...