Browsing through the web led me to Google Trends for the latest trending topics on the web, and one of the hottest of the day is a book. Richard Castle’s Heat Wave book. Searches for heat wave book, richard castle, heat wave, richard castle author, heatwave book, richard castle heat wave have seemingly flooded the internet lately. Must be a new release, I told myself. Then something about the name hit me. Haven’t I heard that name on television? I have, and it’s a fictional author played by Nathan Fillion on the series Castle. If the author is fictional, how could there be a book by him? And why would there be a search for a
book by a fictional author?

This is a puzzle to me. I don’t even know why there is such a clamor for the “book” Heat Wave by Richard Castle, for something that does not exist. Anyway, here is something about Richard Castle and Heat Wave according to Wikipedia (the last sentence may be the reason why people are searching for the book).

Richard “Rick” Castle is a fictional character portrayed by Nathan Fillion in the ABC crime series Castle. Richard Castle is a New York Times bestselling author.

Castle is an author of mystery fiction, with 26 bestsellers under his belt. His most popular works comprise a series starring “Derek Storm,” including the novels Gathering Storm, Unholy Storm, Storm’s Last Stand, Storm Season, Storm Rising, Storm Warning, and Storm’s Break; in the pilot episode, Castle attends a party for the release of the final book in the Storm series, Storm Fall, in which he kills off his protagonist after becoming bored with the character. He later reads from the novel before a book-signing. Patterson and Cannell both disagree with the decision, with Cannell claiming that he could have crippled Storm instead. Castle’s other books include Death of a Prom Queen, Flowers For Your Grave, Hell Hath No Fury, A Skull at Springtime, At Dusk We Die, When it comes to Slaughter, and A Rose for Everafter.

After using his friendship with the Mayor to get partnered with NYPD detective Kate Beckett (under the pretense of conducting research), Castle plans a new series of novels starring a new detective based on Beckett. Toward the end of the second episode, the name of Beckett’s literary alter-ego is revealed to be “Nikki Heat.”; in the fourth episode, Beckett takes umbrage at the name and insists that Castle change it, despite his proposing the book titles Summer Heat, Heat Wave, and In Heat.

Richard Castle’s book “Heat Wave” was released as a hardback on 9/29/2009 and debuts as #26 on New York Times bestseller list.

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