Every day I like to watch an hour or so of TV while eating dinner. I don't like the news, which is the show-of-choice for most local and national stations during the dinner hour, but with cable TV there are usually other options to choose from. I enjoy watching most of the home improvement shows on HGTV, except for their newest edition called
Love It or List It. I think they must have hired the biggest idiot in the universe to re-do those poor people's houses. I used to watch
Seinfeld reruns, but let's face it. The show's been on for 25 years, so I figured it was time to flip the channel. One number up on my cable box was a show called,
Castle. It's a clever NYPD crime show in which best-selling author, Richard Castle, shadows detective Kate Beckett as she and her two partners go around solving crimes. In the TV show, Kate Beckett is the inspiration for Castle's latest mystery book
Heat Wave.
Imagine my surprise when I logged into the library database and found out that there actually exists a Richard Castle book called
Heat Wave. It turns out that when the show first came out in 2009 (I'm a little behind the times), the producers at ABC thought it would be a good marketing gimmick to hire a ghost writer to actually write the book portrayed in the TV show. But no one knows who the real author is, and ABC isn't telling. The only clue they give out is that the writer has appeared on one of the episodes, but in the TV show, Richard Castle has a weekly poker game with other writers, including James Patterson, Michael Connelly, and Stephen Cannell. This whole thing is very clever, but incredibly confusing (mixing real-life people with fictional characters), but I guess it isn't any different than playing soccer against other "players" in a video game.
