London’s Sunday Times Is a Man’s World

The UK bookblog Trashionista takes a look at what the Sunday Times of London thinks will be hot this holiday season, and they’ve got a serious objection. The Times sees this Christmas shopping cycle as a multifaceted battle between “Michael Crichton, Charles Frazier, John Grisham, Robert Harris, Stephen King, John le Carré and Thomas Pynchon,” prompting Trashionista Diane Shipley to muse, “I can’t work out if the blokes at The Times are sexist or just a bunch of old fogies, but I don’t for one minute believe that literary quirk Thomas Pynchon or Charles Frazier will outsell Marian Keyes or Lauren Weisberger this Christmas!” We could quibble with her examples—neither Keyes nor Weisberger has a new book out for the season—but she’s got a point: Surely some woman is getting a novel published in the United Kingdom in the next three months that might reasonably be expected to do well!

Create a social media strategy, launch your campaign, and track the results in our Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting February 16. The online event and workshop will feature speakers including The Onion‘s Baratunde Thurston (left), Facebook’s Morin Oluwole, and bitly’s Tim Devane. Register now.