From: "Erica VD Ginter" <eginter at klgai.com>
To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Those Wacky UK Book Pepole . . .
Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 12:28:17 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

We can always count on Michael to keep us up to date on tasteful
developments in the publishing world.

Erica

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Walsh [mailto:MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu]
Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 3:10 PM
To: wsfalist at keithlynch.net
Subject: [WSFA] Those Wacky UK Book Pepole . . .

>From "The Bookseller", 4 October 2002, the "Bent's Notes" column:

"Ottakar's, I am delighted to learn, did "amazingly well" a few years ago =
with O'Mara's Little Book of Farting, selling 75,000 copies. Inspired by =
their success, Paul Henderson of Ottakar's and David Crombie--the latter, =
as "Alec Bromcie", was the author of the farting hit--invited Ottakar's =
staff to submit an idea for a new little book subject. The winner was =
Modern Girls' Guide to Intimate Topiary, and it will be an Ottakar's =
exclusive this autumn before being rolled out to the rest of the trade =
next year."
(http://www.thebookseller.com/news/columnists.cfm#bent)

mjw