Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 14:43:57 -0500 From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu> To: <wsfalist at keithlynch.net> Subject: [WSFA] Who needs sex, drugs, and rock'n'roll when . . . Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net> >From The Bookseller 8 Nov 2002: "The annual round of publishers' book presentations is usually judged on = the length of the spiel; the standard of the lunch; and the quality of the = goody bag. My colleagues who attended a Dorling-Kindersley presentation = last week were more than pleasantly surprised to find in their bags some = sex dice (DK publishes Anne Hooper's 'Sexopedia' in January), a bottle of = 10-year old port, and a camera. 'That's a whole evening's entertainment,' = one noted. 'No books though,' a slightly wiser head pointed out." Ah, the English . . . mjw