Publishing News brings us a somewhat tongue-in-cheek piece by Isabel Losada, author of MEN! WHERE THE F*** ARE THEY? as she asks the book trade where to find those choice eligible bachelors in the publishing world. "I know that they are as rare as an unsolicited manuscript that an editor picks up and takes home - but I have faith that, just as talented and unknown writers can be found - I can find (with huge amounts of help from you) ten interesting and available men in the book trade." Some of her qualifying categories include:

The Best Cover Design - The Best Looking Man in Books. Is he your favourite sales rep or your boss? Do you swoon when he walks into your bookshop and buy everything he shows you for the wrong reasons? Not that we ever judge a man by the cover of course.

The Quick Read - Pure Shag-ability. The man you most fancy a quicky with in the stock room.

The Gift Book - The Most Over-Rated Man in Books? He is successful - he is arrogant - but you still want to take him home and run your fingers over him� Who is he?

If these elusive, eligible men are out there, Losada's inviting them to her book launch in London on April 20 - champagne included...