Ghosts writing

Hmm. Seems Hodder & Stoughton have just bought an unfinished children's fantasy novel by erstwhile Boyzone star Stephen Gately, called The Tree of Seasons: a case of a ghost writing a book rather it being produced by a ghost writer. But why stop there? How about:

• Elvis Presley's Home Cooking;
• On the Road with James Dean; or
• Abraham Lincoln's Guide to the Theatre?

The scope is limitless: all it needs are a few ambulance-chasing agents and grave-robbing publishers to get the party started. Michael Jackson's This Was It, anyone? Oh, I see the book trade has already scoffed all the canapes and drunk the bar dry ...