Sorry to say, but your book will most likely not be around to titillate generations to come over and over again until the sun explodes. Then again, that one other writer who you can't stand? Who has to rub it in your face that she got a book deal while you're still toiling away? Yeah, her book will fade away, too, and she'll be sad as well. We'll all be sad.

OK, that wasn's supposed to be that depressing. Read more about the survival of literature (or not) over at Making Light.