Thursday, February 12, 2009

Booking Through Thursday-- If They Blog It, Will We Come?

Do you read any author’s blogs? If so, are you looking for information on their next project? On the author personally? Something else?

Although I often search for author blogs as part of my book review process, I have to admit that I seldom give them more than a cursory glance unless they're blogs of favorite authors. If so, I'll give them the once-over to see if I should be keeping an eye out for new titles. I do have a few author blogs in my Google Reader, but they are seldom updated which makes me think that they're busy writing their books instead of telling me what they ate for breakfast. (Gotta be happy about that!) The only author blog I pay attention to which is updated fairly regularly is Stuart MacBride's (my favorite mystery writer from Scotland). His blog, Halfhead, is always good for a laugh.



8 comments:

  1. I don't normally follow the ones that don't update often unless I know their posts are quality. Otherwise, not too much point, they'll probably only be talking about their books anyway and not the more interesting bits of their lives!

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  2. I'm addicted to Declan Burke's blog, Crime Always Pays. He posts regularly, and his topics vary from the personal to professional. He gives time to other writers via interviews or critiques. His blog titles are witty, his outlook optimistic, his talent prodigious.

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  3. I'm like you -- I cruise on by if I have something in particular I'm interested in.

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  4. My answer is similar to yours, although the one I read is a different author. Happy BTT.

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  5. Okay, Corey, you talked me into it. I'm going to check out Burke's blog!

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  6. So far, other than myself, you're the only one that mentions looking for the blogs for review purposes...interesting...

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  7. Nicole--I found that interesting, too. I know that many others do include the URL for an author's blog, so they probably just forgot to mention it.

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  8. I'm with you Cathy - Stuart McBride and his books are just wonderful.

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