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Man Space Debuts at 29th on Bestseller List October 12 2006

Just received this news from Sam Martin, author of ManSpace: A Primal Guide to Marking Your Territory, which includes my own garage for motorcycles as one of fifty "man spaces." (See lower right of cover.)

"Great news from the book world. Manspace landed at #29 on the BookScan bestseller list for the week of October 1. If you've never heard of BookScan I don't blame you. It's an industry insider tracking company established by Nielson (yes, that Nielson) that provides point of sale stats to publishing companies. They monitor book sales from all the biggest bookstores in the country including Barnes & Noble Inc., Walden, Borders and Amazon.com.

That means Manspace was the 29th bestselling adult non-fiction book from all those stores last week. And we didn't even have the full week to work with - the book came out on a Tuesday!"

Sam has created a website (www.manspacesite.com) where, ahem, men can upload descriptions and pictures of their own "man spaces." It's a bit tongue in cheek, and quite enjoyable.

We don't have our copy yet, but I suspect some editorial liberties may have been taken.... Honestly, I don't make Frith park the Mini Cooper outside!

> Order Manspace at Amazon.

-RH