By Friday, Danielle Voss had been contacted by three literary agents, two podcast networks, a documentary production company, and one very confused local realtor who misread the situation entirely. By the following Monday, she had signed a deal for a coffee table book titled ‘The Living Canon: Classical Art Reimagined,’ due out next spring from a major New York publisher.

The advance was, according to sources close to Danielle, ‘significantly more than six years of librarian salary.’ She will remain at the Millbrook Public Library, by choice, because — and this is a direct quote — ‘the library is where I belong and also the Wi-Fi is fantastic.’