Author John Grogan is steamed. The reason? Someone besides him is trying to cash in on the success of his sleeper bestseller Marley and Me, and that someone is his former employer the Philadelphia Inquirer. Publishers Marketplace reports that John's agent Laurie Abkemeier has sent a letter to sales reps complaining that Grogan wasn't given an appropriate amount of editorial control over the soon to be published collection of his P. I. columns, which the paper owns.

So your debut memoir was a huge sleeper hit because it had an adowwable labrador retriever on the cover. But what do you do for a follow up? It's not like you can go out and get another pet that will misbehave, unite your family, and then [SPOILER!] die in tearjerking fashion. Well, if you're savvy businessman-author John Grogan, you find ways to extend your brand without ever coming up with any new ideas.