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   "Brenda"  wrote   
      
   > Over on Book View Cafe's blog we are starting a series in June. It will   
   be Write Hacks -- hacks for writers. And the first one is by me -- about   
   using Amazon or Goodreads for your titling needs. If you put a title   
   into the search window, you can see precisely how many works have been   
   published through the ages with that title; the number is nearly always   
   larger than you expect. (I write as the author of HOW LIKE A GOD.)   
      
   If you are using Amazon. plain search will give lots of false drops   
   including some in-text and blurb references   
      
   Better to use Advanced Search aka Book Search   
      
   Using _Summer Lightning_ (P G Wodehouse's example)   
      
   plain search 1,377 results   
   Advanced Search  108 results which include, correctly, hee !   
      
     The depths of the sea; an account of the general results of the dredging   
   cruises of H.M. SS. 'Porcupine' and 'Lightning' during the summers of 1868,   
   ... J. Gwyn Jeffreys, and Dr. Wyville Thomson   
      
   --   
   Mike D   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)