Ashley Smith, the woman taken hostage by courthouse shooter-upper Brian Nichols, has a publishing contract and is now “writing” a book.

Sadly, the powers that be have forsaken the most obvious and best title for the book, “The Accident-Driven Life” and have settled instead on “Unlikely Angel: The Untold Story of the Atlanta Hostage Hero.”

I may save “The Accident-Driven Life” for my not-ever-to-be-written book on Americans who forsake real books for the ghost-written memoirs of pseudo-celebs thrust into the public eye through no fault of their own by the celeb-hungry news media.

In the meantime, be on the lookout for the other book I’m not working on, “Lonely At The Top: The Carl E. Roland Story” at a fine bookseller near you.

(note: sorry about the typos earlier. i was running out the door)