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Bert Archer, author of The End of Gay and all-around critic, has a blog.

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Blogging your way to the top

Publishers are taking an interest in blogs. Um, isn't this story last year's news? (BTW, anyone who wants to option my daddy blog about my relationship with my son and is willing to pay through the schnozzle for it is welcome to make an offer... email me and I'll send you the link. Don't all stampede now.)


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Teleread
In the spirit of the Amazon Shorts announcement, here's a blog dedicated to e-books and their kin.

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Edited by author 10-11-2005 02:02 PM
Dust off your blog

And that's not a euphemism. Cory Doctorow will be judging the inaugural Blooker Prize.

"Blooks are the latest landmark in the history of books", said Mr Young.

"They are a new stage in the life-cycle of content, if not a whole new category of literature, with its own creative process and emerging literary style."

More than 100 blooks have already been identified as potential candidates for the Blooker prize.

They almost called them The Narcissus Awards but Blooker, besides being cheekily derivative, was, well, cheekily derivative.

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"Does anyone around here smell blog pussy?"
Back when Mark Sarvas launched The Elegant Variation, he cited his "loathing for Steve Almond" as one of the reasons. The two of them recently wound up at the same event together, and Almond went on the hunt.

My plan to show restraint in the Sarvas matter didn't last long. I had been at the book festival for barely an hour when I made a beeline for the Vermin booth. I walked right up to him and stuck my hand out and said, in a loud, friendly voice, "Hi! I'm Steve Almond!"

He looked up, startled. "Jim's over there!" he said, pointing to the tall fellow on his left. My hand hung in the air, waiting for the shake that would initiate our super-charged literary smackdown. But Sarvas took a swift step to the side and sat down in front of his laptop and refused to look up again.

I felt oddly preempted. After all, it had been my plan to pretend I didn't know who Sarvas was, and here he was pretending he didn't know who I was, even though I had just introduced myself to him.

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Edited by author 10-21-2005 01:00 PM
How loyal are you people, anyway?

It’s safe to say that the blog-to-book phenomenon has gone mainstream: Two more well-known bloggers scored book deals this week. On Monday, Elizabeth Spiers announced that she is leaving Mediabistro to work as a freelance journalist and finish her novel, And They All Die in the End, which Simon & Schuster’s Geoff Kloske acquired from Kate Lee, of ICM.


The publishers are thinking cash grab and so are the bloggers but will you, dear audience, dish out hard earned greenback for what you could read in God's square light? Will it even be interesting without the subliminal heavenly refresh? And what I really want to know is, how many mouse clicks to nirvana?

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He's baaaaack!

MobyLives is back, with MobyLives Radio. Holy shit! Var nice!


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Name this blog
The Guardian has got a new blog about words and stuff, and it's looking for a name.

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Top blog prize goes to fictional housewife

In other news, a fictional prize goes to top blog Bookninja! George, Peter, Kathryn: I humbly present you with the Golden Wrist for Carpel Tunnel Excellence.


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Amazon Connect
There are so many new publishing technologies and trends that I can't keep track of them. For instance, I just learned about Amazon Connect, a new blogging program.

Shoppers looking to pick up Meg Wolitzer's latest novel, "The Position," on Amazon.com last week found the usual readers' comments and excerpts from reviews. They also found something unexpected - posts on the subject of literature from Ms. Wolitzer herself.
The entries were part of a new program called Amazon Connect, begun late last month to enhance the connections between authors and their fans - and to sell more books - with author blogs and extended personal profile pages on the company's online bookstore site. So far, Amazon has recruited a group of about a dozen authors, including novelists, writers of child care manuals and experts on subjects as diverse as real estate investing, science, fishing and the lyrics of the Grateful Dead.

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Blogging into the funny pages

Dave Barry, we hardly knew ye... It's so sad to see a successful writer leave print and devote all his time and effort to maintaining a blog... Wait. And on the flip side.


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The blogging writer

Log-jamming the tributaries of creativity with their putrid decaying bodies. Or something like that. Or not. What day is this?


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Review editors discover blogs!
The Literary Saloon points to a couple of blogs run by lit editors at newspapers. It'd be nice to have a full list of blogging newspaper types, but I haven't seen anything yet. Anyone know any others? See also the Guardian's Culture Vulture, which directed my attention to the interesting Friday Project, which turns blogs into books.

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The Empire's assault on Bloggin 2 has begun

Help us all, God will. (First link from Slushpile)


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HarperCollins blogs
The Literary Saloon points to some new blogs from HC, which look pretty interesting. They already led me to this site on book covers and this site on book binding.

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