LONDON – Good advice? Maybe. Oddest book title of 2007 — that’s official.
“If You Want Closure in Your Relationship, Start With Your Legs” has won the Diagram Prize for the oddest title of the year, The Bookseller magazine announced Friday.
Big Boom, the apparently pseudonymous author, calls it a “self-help book, written by a man for the benefit of women.”
It’s a book, he writes, that is “raw, honest and about you,” distilling “the sweat off my back, the wrinkles in my forehead from anger and thinking all the time.”
The title triumphed in a public vote over runner-up “I Was Tortured by the Pygmy Love Queen” and the third-place finisher, “Cheese Problems Solved.”
“The winner, ‘If You Want Closure,’ makes redundant an entire genre of self-help tomes,” said Joel Rickett, deputy editor of The Bookseller. “So effective is the title that you don’t even need to read the book itself.”
The title joins a pantheon of past winners, including “Weeds in a Changing World” (1999), “The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories” (2003); “Bombproof Your Horse” (2004); and “The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification” (2006).
I don’t know. But it beats the heck out of chewing my nails over Amazon/Booksurge.
First, I’m pulling the ARC contest a few days earlier than planned to make sure Easter weekend doesn’t interfere with my mailing plans. The two winners should have received an email by now :teef:
Second, I’ve added the pre-order links to The Living Legend pages. :flex:
Third, the last of my 2008 slots are filling fast. If you’re considering submitting something and would like to see it out in ’08, you might want to send me a proposal before the end of March. (This includes anthology pieces)
:whine:
Oy. I’ve been working on styles and finalizing ebook formats.
It took me AN ENTIRE HOUR yesterday to figure out how to insert your basic horizontal line in Word 2007. I almost gave up, but I decided I was not going to let Microsoft beat me.
I finally found the answer buried deep in the bowels of the user community archives.
What is it? Like some state secret or something?
:banghead:
Anyway, there’s a tiny icon in the home ribbon/paragraph section. The icon’s labeled “borders”. You’ll find horizontal lines in the dropdown.
And okay, to be fair, Word 2007 makes it much simpler than previous versions to do most things. But this one was a byotch of no small order.
It’s finally happened — DH has found a chick flick he actually liked. :wtf:
I was too busy to watch with him that first time, and of course since he liked it, I was pretty well convinced I’d hate it. (He’s still on the enemy watch list for that whole Band of Brothers ordeal. I loved every second of it but bawled so hard I required IV re-hydration afterwards)
Yet after a couple days of DH hounding me to watch The Holiday, I finally gave in.
Um… I never “got” the whole Jude Law thing before.
I do, now.
And I know some people had a problem with “sweet” and “too good to be true”, but I was more caught up in Kate’s arc than all that stuff. In fact, I’d go as far as saying I don’t believe the film ought to have been labeled as romcom.
Anyway, I loved it. Has anyone else seen it? What did you think?
I thought this was really romantic in a…completely unforgivable type way.
PRINCE GEORGE, British Columbia – A man in Prince George, British Columbia, thought he had the perfect way to propose to his high school sweetheart. Instead of popping the question on a moonlit Caribbean beach this week, though, Aaron Tkachuk, 24, wound up popping the question to Jennifer Rubadeau, also 24, at an airport security screening station.
A screener at the Prince George airport, Adam Buhler, insisted on having a closer look at the contents of a small box in the toe of a sock. Inside the box was a white gold, diamond and ruby ring.
Tkachuk decided to propose on the spot, and other travelers and security personnel cheered as Rubadeau said yes.
Emmatyville 