It takes money to publish books, and most of that money flows out the door before the book is released and sales begin, so my publishing company, Shadowpaw Press, is turning to Crowdfundr to help …
Shapers of Worlds Volume IV, the fourth anthology featuring authors who were guests on my podcast, The Worldshapers, is now available everywhere, including directly from Shadowpaw Press. Here’s a handy universal URL with links to …
My publishing company, Shadowpaw Press, has three great titles coming out in the first two months of 2024, all of them science fiction or fantasy. The first two, The Good Soldier by Nir Yaniv and …
Here’s another seven-sentence short story! I ran the workshop again at Ganbatte, an anime convention in Saskatoon. It went well, and here’s the one I created, again with the instructions, created by noted SF short-story …
Another When Words Collide, another Seven-Sentence Short Story workshop, as I once again led a group of writers through this plotting exercise devised by noted science fiction short-story writer James Van Pelt. As always, I …
Soulworm, my first published novel (originally released by Royal Fireworks Press in 1997), is now available in a brand-new, lightly revised edition from Shadowpaw Press Reprise. You can purchase it at one of these links …
Previous
Next
And the nominees for oddest book title of the year are:
- How Green Were the Nazis?
- Proceedings of the 18th International Seaweed Symposium
- The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification
- Tattooed Mountain Woman and Spoon Boxes of Daghestan
- Di Mascio’s Delicious Ice Cream: Di Mascio of Coventry, an Ice Cream Company of Repute, with an Interesting and Varied Fleet of Ice Cream Vans
- Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence
Those six titles will contend for the 29th annual Bookseller-Diagram Prize, sponsored by The Bookseller, the U.K.-based publishing industry trade magazine.
Four other titles which would have been nominees except they were published before 2006 were:
- The Essential Underwater Guide to North Wales, Vol. 1
- Let’s Discover F Words
- Celebrating Boxes
- A General Analysis of the Counting Methods of Chopped Yarrow Stalks in the Book of Changes
Of course you remember last year’s winner, People Who Don’t Know They’re Dead: How They Attach Themselves to Unsuspecting Bystanders and What to Do About It.
This isn’t some fancy-schmancy juried contest, either. The public can vote at The Bookseller’s Web site. The “winner” will be announced April 13.
(Via CBC.)
Permanent link to this article: https://edwardwillett.com/2007/03/and-the-nominees-for-oddest-book-title-of-the-year-are/