Now that Tina Fey is done with her Sarah Palin impressions, she can be off writing that memoir/book/funny stuff that she's been allotted $6 million for. So hey, it looks like book writing is the one profession in word trading that still might be lucrative, providing that you are already an established success in your field.

And right now? The hot ticket is women comedians. Sarah Silverman's non-fiction humor essays just ended a huge bidding war between HarperCollins and two other publishing houses, with HC emerging the victor in a $2.5 million bid. Now it's all in-fighting at HarperCollins HQ, as three editors from each of the house's different sections (Harper, Collins, and William Morrow) try to decide who gets the Silverman collection, which her agent is billing as "just like Tina Fey's."

That must have been what it felt like for Augusten Burroughs when his agent had to refer to him as "just like David Sedaris."