Sure, this week’s Publishers Weekly back-pager, a parody of The Secret in which Allison Glock and Michael Solomon outline the Law of Detraction (“which holds that your thoughts have great power, especially the mean ones”), is quite funny. But the fact that it’s only a page long helps; any more and the joke would wear thin. Or would it? One highly ranked editor tells me that no less than three proposals for book-length Secret spoofs have landed on his desk in the last two weeks, which means that at least three agents think the concept is funny enough to sell. “Will any of us publish one and risk the wrath of the Big O?” my source wondered, but thinking about the question overnight, I came up with another angle to consider: