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Diagram Prize winner
The winner of this year's Diagram Prize for oddest title is Managing a Dental Practice the Ghengis Khan Way
Bulwer-Lytton relative defends reputation
The great-great-great grandson of the much-maligned author Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton is to take part in a debate to defend his ancestor's writing, reports the Guardian.
Wanted: dab hands to forge author signatures
An ad posted on a US website is seeking up to 14 people to can do a blitz of false autograph signing on behalf of two unnamed co-authors of a newly released, and equally anonymous, book. "Yo...
Let the blurb trading begin
While authors who are personal friends, or who share the same agent or publisher, have often written blurbs for each others' books, a newly established company is formalising blurb-trading for a fee.
Classics we love to hate
In an unusual twist on the familiar 'list article', this piece from The Times looks at the books we might have loved in our youth but now despise.
How to pick up with (pre-published) books
A New York columnist reckons the best way to spark converation and possible romance is to be seen carrying an advance copy of a not-yet-published book.
Oddest title award winner
The Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year has been awarded to a self-help manual by an American writer called Big Boom: If You Want Closure in Your Relationship, Start With Your Legs (Simon ...
Oddest title prize shortlist
The Bookseller has announced the shortlist for the Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year:I Was Tortured By the Pygmy Love QueenHow to Write a How to Write BookAre Women Human? And Other Inte...
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