Having a couple of these piles of pretense and wishful thinking in my neighborhood watching them slip, slide and flounder in the snow like a wallowing pig in a mud bog.. (evo.co.uk)
The legitimate publishers who have partnered with Author Solutions make extra money on the side, while the clueless author is happy as the proverbial pig in mud — until he later realizes that the thousands of dollars he doled out to the vanity press has produced at most a handful of sales, and his dream is crushed. (writewell.silverpen.org)