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[LettersFromTatyana]

My personal favorites from the list of suggestions:

If Your First Novel Will Be A Workplace Satire
At Least They Left Us The [A PIECE OF OFFICE MACHINERY]

If Your First Novel Will Be Self-Consciously Ironic And Self-Congratulatory
[A COMIC-BOOK SOUND EFFECT WORD] Goes [A NEIGHBORHOOD IN BROOKLYN]

 

[R. Richard]

Some years back, a publisher noted that books about Lincoln sold well. Books about doctors sold well. Books about dogs sold well. So, they commissioned a book titled, "Lincoln's Doctor's Dog."

 

[Stella_Omega]

Some years back, a publisher noted that books about Lincoln sold well. Books about doctors sold well. Books about dogs sold well. So, they commissioned a book titled, "Lincoln's Doctor's Dog."

But James Thurber noted that they missed one other very popular element, and he suggested "Lincoln's Doctor's Son's Dog."

 

[oggbashan]

Yellow Pages in the UK had a long running TV advert about a man looking for a long out of print copy of 'Fly-Fishing' by J R Hartley. When he found it through Yellow Pages bookdealers he was delighted - because he was J R Hartley.

The book didn't exist, but the advert had created a demand - so it was written by a fly-fishing expert under the nom-de-plume of J R Hartley.