A Random Assortment of Book News & Links

So shallow and cruel, it's gotta be true: Gawker lists The Last 5 Ways to Get a Book Deal.


It's already on t-shirts, posters, cartoons and pasta. Is it really so surprising that there are now Naruto postage stamps?


Five of the Top 10 Pirated eBooks of 2009 are sex-related, but you already knew that, didn't you? (Casts accusatory eye.) Didn't you?


OnlineColleges.net has made a list of 100 Useful Twitter Feeds for Book Lovers, and yes, we're on it. Hell, I wouldn't link to it if'n we weren't. Via.


Soul of the People author David A. Taylor sat down with the multi-millionaires at MediaBistro.com to discuss how writers survived the Great Depression. Click here to eavesdrop.


a_tannenbaum, this last link is for you. Flaovrwire has a couple of teasing images from Catherine Corman’s upcoming release, Daylight Noir: Raymond Chandler’s Imagined City. The book "takes readers on a black and white tour of fictional private eye Philip Marlowe’s real world haunts." FYI: This would make a great belated birthday present for me, and/or a wonderful birthday present for imaginary friend, Potato, whose b'day just happens to be -- wow, would you look at that -- today!