Literary Fingerprint

No one is safe. Shakespeare has been caught red-handed, ink-stained fingers and all. "A team of researchers that includes scholars from the University of Massachusetts Amherst is using computerized analysis of the writing of William Shakespeare to dispel lingering doubts about his authorship of many works and to trace the outlines of his total body of compositions... The Shakespeare 'fingerprint' also provides strong evidence that he, and not other authors, wrote the works generally believed to be his..." - Physorg.com

So now we know that Shakespeare is the perp responsible for 'Arden of Faversham'. I think there should a national 'literary fingerprint' database. So any writer who refuses to acknowledge his crappy novel can be held to account.

Margaret Boyes writes about wannabe author Skip Hollingsworth's quest to get published. 42 rejection notices and counting...

And in other news, medical transcription work outsourced to consultants in India has landed King's College Hospital into a steaming tub of hot water.