Melville House Books

Danielle Steel, author of so many pulp novels that no one seems to know for sure how many she’s written (best guess: 92), and for which she was decorated by the French government as a Chevalier of Ordre des Arts et des Lettres — so you know she’s good! — has announced that she just doesn’t type enough and so will be starting a blog. Run to the ground by relentless book industry newshound Hillel Italie of the Associated Press in yet another of his ground-breaking reports, Steel says that she plans to write on DanielleSteel.net at least once a week, or “if I get excited about something.” “It’s like a letter to a friend, and fun to be able to share something and say, ‘Gee, I did this,’” she explains to Italie, who no doubt nodded sagely.

Dennis Johnson is the founder of MobyLives, and the co-founder and co-publisher of Melville House.