Local Artist Wins International "Odd Title" Award!
Good news for local artist Julian Montague, who won the 29th Annual Bookseller/Diagram "Prize for Oddest Title of the Year" for his new book, The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Field Identification Guide. .
Julian wanted to pass along a special thanks to BRO readers who may have voted for him as a result of the article. He sent out a further email regarding the event:
Several weeks ago I sent out an email asking you to vote for my book in the Bookseller/Diagram Prize for the Oddest title. If you didn't get that email, I apologize, I put together that list rather hastily. In any case, my book won the contest so thank you for taking the time to vote! The win has resulted in a lot of positive media attention for the book. I did an interview with the BBC World Service (they were snarkily skeptical of the idea that anyone would buy my book). There was an AP story yesterday that got picked up worldwide and a pretty good feature in today's Independent (UK). My website has been deluged with hits to the point where my service provider has had to set up a mirror site.
Kudos to Julian, and enjoy the champagne and notoriety!
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jennimi
Congrats Julian! Cool idea!
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Celia
Julian, I heard you on NPR! Very proud of you.
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