The West is burning.

This kills me. 

 

I wrote a book 4 years ago that pretty much parallels what's happening to the West right now. Did a lot of research and it was clear this was coming.

The key plot element--the insight that made the book work--is being mentioned in the news for the first time.

I have to be vague about it because I sold it as a ghost book for a bestselling author. (Supposedly, the publisher was going to publish something under my own name, but I got ignored for the next two years. Heh.)

 

I got an advance which was more money than I've ever made. We split ways after that because I didn't want to make the changes they wanted to make. I'd moved on and I was pissed that they'd been so rude.

Anyway, I kept expecting it to come out--and nothing. (Every book by this author hits the Top Ten bestselling mass market books.)

By now, the history I researched is out of date. The publisher has missed the boat, unless they rush it out now.

I'll never understand it.