Does your favorite novelist have a day job in TV?

A bestselling young-adult novelist friend of mine, Ned Vizzini (It's Kind of a Funny Story), has both a new book coming out (The Other Normals) and a new job writing for ABC's military-guys-on-an-island drama Last Resort (which airs tonight on ABC).

We had a recent conversation about why more novelists — and we're talking bestsellers — are moving into the TV biz. (Answer: More work, less talk...