There's a website called The Publishing Contrarian
Lynne's website is humourous and pretty down to earh. I thought you might find some of it interesting.
She recently had a topic on:
How Low Should You Sink to Shamelessly Market Your Book? Is Author Jeff Pearlman a Prostitute?
It should be just down the first page alittle.
http://www.thepublishingcontrarian.com/Here's her bio:
Lynne W. Scanlon has written three nonfiction books with total sales exceeding 600,000 copies. She has been on radio and TV throughout the United States while on national tour promoting her books. She has been interviewed in Newsweek and profiled on CNN. She was a group publisher of developmental product at A/S/M Communications (publishers of AdWeek magazine) and a consultant in marketing and special sales to Barnes & Noble Books. In the August 29th, 2005 issue of Publishers Weekly, she wrote a “Soapbox” column titled “Slaves to the Galley.”