Since I review audiobooks, and apparently most audiobook publishers have no way of distinguishing between genres of audiobooks, I’m on the mailing list of a few different companies which just send me every single audiobook they publish.  All I really need are SF/fantasy audiobooks, but this is the only way for me to get review copies, I guess.  I’m not complaining, just explaining. 

Sometimes sending me all these books does pay off though, since I do review for Publishers Weekly; on occasion, I’ll see an audiobook review copy that I might not have otherwise noticed, and if I find it interesting enough to read, I’ll ask my editor if I can review it.  Sometimes that works, sometimes it doesn’t; most of the time he gives me a list of things to choose from.

But anyway, that’s all a long way of explaining how I got a copy of the following book in the mail the other day: 100 Bullshit Jobs…and How to Get Them by Stanley Bing.  I haven’t read it yet, but it sounds interesting.  I’ve always wanted a bullshit job, but at the moment I have a job that I quite enjoy, so this won’t be of much use to me at the moment.  However, I was thinking that writers are always in need of bullshit jobs, because the more bullshit the job is, the more time you’ll have to write while you’re supposedly working.  So, if you’re in need of a bullshit job, you might want to check this book out.