As for pig themes, I recommend my Sally West stories. As for admiring quotes, I trust none of those quoted were of the kind that I remember one literary gent mentioning on a radio discussion: he'd reviewed some work and said of it, "stimulates feelings of utter disgust," only to find his quote on the dust-jacket: "stimulates."
And as for shameless pluggers, when I was young, pluggery was a crime. | 
