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* ''Manga/AhAndMmAreAllSheSays'': Rookie mangaka Toda gets her {{eromanga}} manuscript accepted by a magazine, and it wins second place in a contest, all within the first day of her arriving in Tokyo (Tanaka got them to give her the prize money early since she was alone in the city with no savings). And then it turns out [[spoiler:she's ReallySeventeenYearsOld]].

* Michael in ''ComicStrip/ForBetterOrForWorse'' has little trouble getting his books published. In fact, he's even able to support a family on this (normally highly unreliable) income extremely quickly. One of the more justifiable criticisms leveled at the comic in its waning years was about how he received a sizable cash advance for his first novel, which had been read and edited only by his mother.

* Aversion: In the ''[[ComicBook/TheSandman Sandman]]'' comics by Neil Gaiman, a struggling young writer is unable to successfully publish anything until he acquires a bezoar and gives it to an older, accomplished writer. This is the price for the slavery of the muse Calliope, and once the younger writer starts [[spoiler:raping her on a regular basis]], he's able to create modern masterpieces. (Unfortunately for him, Calliope happens to be the mother of the title character's only child, and once he finds out...)

* InstantBookDeal: Within a couple of weeks of meeting Hank Sharp, the title character of ''VisualNovel/{{Melody}}'' is lined up to record an album.

An interesting rule of fiction is that when it comes to a character who wants to write a book about something, they will always get published. It doesn't matter what their profession is--they could be an entomologist, a shoe-salesman, a retail clerk, whatever. Within a few minutes after mentioning the fact that they've completed the book, we'll find out that they already have a publisher and that the printing date is a few weeks from now.

* In one issue of ''ComicBook/TheMazeAgency'', Gabe is ecstatic when he signs a deal to publish a paperback collection of his lurid true crime articles. This is not unreasonable, as Gabe is a true crime writer with several years in the industry. However, when he rushes to tell Jen the news, he discovers that she has just signed a deal for a hardback book based on her career as a female P.I. - her first foray into writing.

** Robert Baratheon also had books printed with ease, but in fairness he's both the King and the inventor of the printing press.

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* On ''Series/{{Bones}}'', somehow Sweets is able to get a book published about psychoanalyzing two people who aren't massively famous or of interest to most of the world. Who was the target audience? (Booth may not be that famous, but Bones is a multimillionaire best selling author. Some people might want to read about her issues.)

** Subverted. Brian's results at writing are mediocre at best, and result only in his works being mocked, or [[ExecutiveMeddling massively modified]] (i.e. his screenwriting being used for porn-flicks, or his serious TV-script being made into a crude sitcom).
** Played straight in an episode where, in order to show to Stewie how vapid and false self-help books are, he knocks out a terrible and trashy self-help book of his own in the course of a few hours; it instantly gets published and becomes a best seller, much to Brian's ambivalence. However, Brian ends up falling victim to the book's hype, forgetting why he wrote it in the first place, and turning into a huge diva.

--->''Anecdotes of the Great Accountants, Vols 1-3''\\

[[FridgeLogic Considering]] that [[MostWritersAreWriters most stories]] are written by [[CaptainObvious writers]], one would think they'd know better. Regardless, this trope persists for one very simple reason--conflict. Books, especially tell-all books, are a great way of forcing characters to interact with each other, particularly the writer, in a very focused manner. The existence of this book, which people everywhere will read, creates privacy issues that must be somehow solved by the end of the plot. Rejection slips, unless a plot centerpoint, generally aren't that interesting.