Rule #1 - Men and Women are from Earth

I know a lot of people in blogland are writers. Some have a successful writing career and others struggle to get their work published.

I've seen a lot of writers out there who are really good, and who I wish I could publish myself, had I been running a publishing company. I also see some scam artists who are making a killing.

Ever since I started this blog, it has been for fun. I currently don't have ads on it. It's crossed my mind, but I've decided to keep it ad free unless the ads are for something I'm selling.

Well, I've been writing for awhile now, actually for about ten years, and I think it's about time I started getting paid for it. I initially considered doing an exposé on the Atkins diet, something that has killed people including Fatkins himself, and caused all kinds of kidney and liver problems.

But that would be a lot of work. I'm no dietician and I'd have to hire someone to fact check. Instead, I floated around a few ideas with Mrs. Z about another con artist - the Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus guy.

This guy's a straight up con artist and the book would write itself. I'm also thinking of splitting the book in half and doing something on The Rules ladies. Here are two obviously miserable women giving bad advice to lonely women out there, that will only manage to keep them lonely. Although they're not con artists like the Mars guy, they make good butts for jokes.

I'll lace the whole thing with Zombieslayer style humor and keep it lighthearted. It's kind of a justice thing for me. I've known some highly talented but broke writers in my day and it does bother me that they're struggling at dead end jobs while these schmucks are multi-millionaires, and they don't help anyone with their drivel. They prey on loneliness, give you a fake solution that doesn't work, and sucker good people into buying more of their trash.

The Mars guy even has a fake PhD. I don't remember the whole story, but it's either the company was shut down because they're cons, they went bankrupt, or a combination of both. I'll have to verify that for you. In the meantime, notice that he doesn't say where he got the PhD from? That's because he bought the PhD as opposed to earning it like the rest of us have to do.

So for now, I'll float the idea around to some agents. If they think they could successfully pitch it, I'll write the book. If not, I won't and I'll think of something else to rant about. Whatever happens, I'll keep you all informed.