And amazingly, the title wasn’t used before

One of these days I might see a new deal reported and not want to be snarky about it. But that day has not arrived yet:

Keith Raffel’s DOT DEAD, a debut Silicon Valley mystery, about a high tech executive who comes home in the middle of the day to find his cleaning lady (a gorgeous Stanford coed that he had never met face-to-face) dead in his bed, to Barbara Moore at Llewellyn for their new mystery imprint, in a nice deal, by Randi Murray at Randi Murray Literary Agency.

While I’m sure there are gorgeous co-eds doubling as cleaning ladies, more pressing is this: Shouldn’t this book have been published five years ago? When, you know, there was still a dotcom boom? It almost seems quaint now, in the age of the ultra-hipster/no-money blogosphere…