I’ve subscribed to TV Guide pretty much my entire adult life. From just about the moment I moved out of my parents’ house, I had a subscription, which should be no shock considering how much I love television.

TV Guide has changed dramatically over the years. From the format to the content, it is a very different publication from the one I used to read at my grandparents’ house. (At my house, we relied on the free one that came in the Sunday paper.) Current technology has pretty much rendered the TV listings as superfluous. So, after much deliberation, I decided to let my subscription run out.

This was the first week in the past fifteen years that I did not receive my regularly scheduled issue of TV Guide. And wouldn’t you know that this is the week that I’M IN THE DARN MAGAZINE!!!!!!!

I mean, seriously! You can’t write this stuff. It’s just too big a coincidence. I wasn’t in last week’s issue. I’m not in the following week’s issue. No. I’m in the very first issue that I no longer get as a subscriber.

The sound you now hear is my head pounding on my desk. I have to go out and buy it at the full cover price because I’M IN IT!

Okay, “I’m” not actually in the issue, but my next book is. The magazine is highlighting upcoming celebrity books in time for the holiday season and they’ve got a shot of The Girls Next Door episode guide with a brief description. And my name. In bold print. It’s in the issue with Christina Applegate on the cover. So, check it out … or just go on Amazon.com and look at the cover there. It cute. And kind of a little dirty.