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Bestselling author Paul Doiron has won the Barry Award and the Strand Critics Award for The Poacher's Son and been nominated for the Edgar Award, the Anthony Award, the Macavity Award, the Thriller Award, and the Maine Literary Award. Send him an email.

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PAUL DOIRON is the editor in chief of Down East: The Magazine of Maine, Down East Books, and DownEast.com. A native of Maine, he attended Yale University, where he graduated with a degree in English and he holds an MFA in creative writing from Emerson College. Paul is a Registered Maine Guide and lives on a trout stream in coastal Maine with his wife, Kristen Lindquist.

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Wednesday
Jan042012

A Lulu of a Title 

DateWednesday, January 4, 2012 at 7:08PM

I have a post over at Maine Crime Writers today about the challenge of picking a good title for a book. It's something I've always struggled with. Help, however, may be at hand. A computer program used by Lulu.com claims it can predict bestsellers based on its title alone. Click here to read how the title of my next book did.

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Wow! I can't believe there's really something like that that can predict the bestselling titles...

- Allen

January 4, 2012 | Unregistered CommenterCheap Flyers

If it truly worked, of course, then every book would hit the New York Times list.

January 4, 2012 | Registered CommenterPaul Doiron

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