huckster's

I play "spot the self-pubbed novel" in the huckster's room at conventions.

msagara: An open letter to Trade Publishers msagara 2009

When I've managed to get to a con, I'll end up going to some of the panels and the movies, but I also spend a great deal of time at something which, in my heyday, was called the huckster's room but is now more commonly known as the dealer's room, window shopping.

Why Con? jimhines 2010

Someone complaining about a genius could have been given enough spittle and eye-bulging, and it is not as though a confession booth set up in the middle of Hollywood, or in the huckster's room at Worldcon, emblazoned with the words ENTER TO COMPLAIN ABOUT HARLAN ELLISON wouldn't have had a line a mile long snaking away from the curtained entrance.

Nick Mamatas' Journal nihilistic_kid 2009

While looking into every busy whore's and huckster's face

Archive 2009-12-01 Victoria Janssen 2009

While looking into every busy whore's and huckster's face

Charlotte Mew, "The Cenotaph" Victoria Janssen 2009

However, the first two "values" she claims the GOP stands for and extols have been shown by a surfeit of manifested evidence to be naught but a huckster's marketing flimflam, it's her enunciation of the presumed latter value that "spills the beans."

A Republican (inadvertently) spills the beans on the GOP 2009

It's no bulletin that we live in a world in which we're lied to every day, on issues as large as world peace and as small as whether some huckster's modified lawnchair will give you amazing abs (in just minutes a day!).

Eric Williams: Cut the Bull-Shtick! 2008

The call is probably a scam to get the huckster's foot in the door.

Tip of the Day: How to handle door-to-door vacuum-sales reps 2008

It is becoming embarassing: it seems like everybody is this Chicago political huckster's drooling sycophant, except the average voter.

Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege 2008

The holy huckster's redemptive message touches everyone, including leaders of the Christian, Jewish and Muslim faiths.

Laughter And Tears 2008