Wacky News Names Out in E-Format

MADISON, Wis. - July 31, 2013 - PRLog -- (Madison) The humor book Wacky News Names is now available via Smashwords, a distributor of e-books. The title, by Stephen J. Busalacchi, can now be found via iTunes, Barnes & Noble and other retailers, in addition to direct downloads: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/329495

Wacky News Names: Monikers that Make You Smirk, by Stephen J. Busalacchi, features real, verified names from the news that are often humorously appropriate because of the person's occupation or context in a story. These names are known as aptronyms. For example, there's a physician from California named Dr. Frankenstein. The real-life Dr. Frankenstein penned the book's foreword: "For those of us with distinctive surnames, Wacky News Names will reassure that many others feel our pain," says Richard Frankenstein, MD, an internist.

There are among the 700-plus names featured in Wacky News Names, along with inventively-drawn sketches from cartoonist Anthony Schmidt.

Busalacchi is a writer, public relations specialist and former Wisconsin Public Radio reporter. It was during his WPR days in the mid-1980s that this name-collecting hobby began.

The paper back: Wacky News Names: Monikers that Make You Smirk, by Stephen J. Busalacchi. Original edition, 7 x 5 soft cover, 135 pages, 30 illustrations. ISBN-13: 978-0-9794222-6-3, $19.97.

Smashwords, founded in 2008, is the leading distributor of independently-published ebooks. More than 60,000 authors, small presses and literary agents around the world publish over 200,000 ebooks through Smashwords. Smashwords distributes to major online retailers such as the Apple iBookstore, Barnes & Noble, Sony, Kobo, Baker & Taylor Blio, Page Foundry and the Diesel eBook Store.

Stephen J. Busalacchi is a writer, interviewer and publicist in Madison, Wisconsin. He is also the author of several other books, including the award-winning oral history, White Coat Wisdom: Extraordinary doctors talk about what they do, how they got there and why medicine is so much more than a job.

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