In Competition 2815 you were invited to contribute to the booming genre of self-help by proposing a new title guaranteed to storm the bestseller lists and providing a blurb for it.

There was lots of good stuff, though some promising ideas failed to deliver in the execution. I was intrigued by Josh Ekroy’s invitation to get in touch with my inner duct tape, and Bill Greenwell’s The Etiquette of Misery: How to Turn Grieving into Gold would surely put a spring in the step of the ranks of Melancholics Anonymous.