The upcoming event will mark the unofficial debut of Richmond’s most unusual new sideline. He’s still applying finishing touches to the website such as credit card ordering, with full product launch set for July.

“I looked at my bank account and I said, ‘Well, it’s not going to get any fatter on this current path of mine,” Richmond tells FishbowlLA via telephone. Along with several stints at the Daily News, Richmond was for years an integral part of The Hollywood Reporter.

“I had been actively thriving as a freelancer since the late ’90s, but because of the disintegration of print, a lot of the work dried up, and I was left having to re-invent myself,” he explains. “I thought, ‘If I’m going to be back in print, I’m going to have to create my own printed words, and that’s where fortune cookies came in.”

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Via brief, boiler plate item on its website this morning, THR indicates that Guider “will continue to contribute” in a way that is more commensurate with her book writing efforts and trips to visit out-of-state relatives. Whether that means angry letters to the (new) editor about her severance package or something else at this point remains unclear.

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