Suicide Corner!!!

Let’s see… what “Retchables” does Publisher’s Lunch have for us today?

FICTION
Debut
Amy Greene’s BLOODROOT, A multigenerational saga set in the heart of Appalachia that centers on a young girl raised by her grandmother on remote Bloodroot Mountain, and the legacy of place — and madness — that her twin children inherit, to Robin Desser at Knopf, by Leigh Feldman at Darhansoff, Verrill, Feldman (NA).

I AM SO ROBBED. I wrote a book called COCK ISLAND, a multigenerational saga set on a remote island [you wouldn’t believe how remote–eds.]. Madness–a.k.a. “cock fever”–and a legacy of place–a.k.a. “???”–also figure in my debut. Hey, Amy! You can’t steal my book and just change the title to a different way of saying ENGORGED PENIS!

NON-FICTION
Advice/Relationships
University of Texas at Austin professors, expert on the physiology of female sexuality Cindy Meston and author of The Evolution of Desire David Buss’s book on why women have sex, growing out of a journal article on the 237 reasons people have sex, to Robin Dennis at Times Books, by Katinka Matson of Brockman (NA).

Assuming you successfully parsed that sentence: Sorry, people, reason #238 didn’t make the cut. It just wasn’t as good as reason #237. But it’s still a valid reason. Don’t be hating on sex reasons!

Humor
HOW TO RAISE A JEWISH DOG authors Ellis Weiner and Barbara Davilman’s ARFFIRMATIONS: MEDITATIONS FOR YOUR DOG, a book of inspirational/motivational thoughts, and color photographs, empowering canines to overcome depression, crankiness, food obsessions, being-bad, and other physical, emotional, and spiritual maladies, to Elizabeth Beier at St. Martin’s, by Paul Bresnick at Paul Bresnick Agency (world English).

Next time I’m being-bad maybe someone will throw me a bone. (Heh?)

Memoir
Laurie Sandell’s THIS IS MOUNT RUSHMORE, a graphic memoir about a celebrity-dazzled magazine writer who discovers her larger-than-life father is in fact a monumental con man, to Judy Clain at Little, Brown, for publication in July 2009, by Amanda Urban at ICM (world).

In fact please stop. This is hurting my brain. Did I mention it’s 5am and I’m making a list of reasons to keep living?

Memoir
Perfect From Now On author John Sellers’s THE OLD MAN AND THE SWAMP, a chronicle of the outdoor-averse author’s travels in the swamps of southern Michigan to catch snakes with his eccentric and recently estranged father, a former Lutheran minister who left the church and his family decades ago to pursue his singular fascination with reptiles, to Brant Rumble at Simon & Schuster, by Jud Laghi at LJK Literary Management (NA).

a) Michigan has swamps?
b) singular fascination with reptiles
c) THE OLD MAN AND THE SWAMP

OK, so I didn’t hit that “bloodroot” thing as well as I could, but cut me a break. And anyway, COCK ISLAND. What more do you want from me? I’m exactly like Jesus: I gave you a hammer so you could build your own steeple. Now find your own funny. Cause I can’t sleep and WHATEVER.

by Left Hook | 21 November 2007 | insomnia, slit my wrists, reading, personal hells | Comments