The mainstream media is but one slice of the paid writing world. The deeper you go, the murkier it gets.

Shameless crook and former New York state senator Pedro Espada has always had a liberal interpretation of what he could purchase with public money: a job for his son, $20,000 worth of sushi, etc. And now: a half-finished memoir!

Mark Zuckerberg's email ghostwriter has ditched him. Who is going apologize for the Facebook CEO's privacy sins now?

Mark Zuckerberg made headlines the other day for emailing Robert Scoble. But it might not have been the Facebook CEO's own words that reached the blogger, since Zuckerberg employs a "ghostwriter" named Kate Losse, we're told.

Lynn Vincent, the woman who is writing a book called Going Rogue "by" Sarah Palin, sure can pick her co-writers. She's written books before with a general who kills "demons" for God and a guy who finds interracial dating "revolting."

Hank Paulson's attempt to weasel out of an interview with the New York Times looks more comical every day. Now it's emerged that the book he was busy writing is being written by someone else.