A recent write-up regarding a new book by librarian Sally Stern-Hamilton of a Lake Michigan resort community, under the pen name Ann Miketa, may help her obtain fame a whole little quicker than with most budding authors. Her new book. "Denialville"--changed to "The Library Diaries"-- starts out with the introduction, " ...I have encountered strains and variations of crazy I didn't know existed in such significant portions of our population." Well, obviously that population became offended at who they thought the "fiction" book was about when they learned the author's identity--first suspending her as a library assistant and then firing her 10 days later.

The description under the online catalog of Publish America states, ""Open this book and you'll meet the naked patron, the greedy, unenlightened patrons, destination hell, the masturbator, horny old men, Mr. Three Hats, and a menagerie of other characters you never dreamt were housed at your public library."  Right there we may have a best seller, regarding issues most people do not talk about or choose  to veil yet will read about it lavishly within the privacy of their homes--written within one of the top pillars of free speech--the local library.

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