Supply-Closet Sex and Instant DNA

I'm sure you're sick of hearing writers wail about how there's no way in hell Carrie Bradshaw could afford all those swanky shoes on the income a freelance journalist actually makes. But "Sex and the City" isn't the only television show guilty of stretching the truth about my trade. On T.V., editors fly 3,000 miles to conduct a chat with a writer that would normally require a three-line e-mail. Book agents hop in a limo, cross a couple of state lines and surprise their authors for lunch.... Full Story