Only On Sunday

I skim through about a dozen blogs each morning.  Mostly writing/publishing stuff like Grumpy Old Bookman, POD-DY Mouth, Word N’ Bass and Galleycat.  And I always check the Backspace blog for information I don’t already get from spending all day on the Backspace forum.

Than there are those blogs that I read ‘just because’.  Maybe it’s the subject matter of blogs like New York Hack or Language Log or just the quality of the writing like Anatomy of Melancholy.  I also try to hit as many Backspacer blogs during the week as I can.  You can check out my blog list over there on the right side of the page, if you want.  I’m adding new ones all the time.

There are several authors who write books about characters in books.  Jasper Fiorde and Cornelia Funke come to mind.  Recently, I ran into a couple of blogs that incorporate this idea into a real twist on blogging. 

Heather Brewer, author of Eighth Grade Bites, has given Vladimir Todd, her teen-age protagonist, a blog of his own - Vlad’s Notebook, while Jackie Kessler, author of Hell’s Belles, and Richelle Mead, author of Succubus Blues, have let their respective protagonists, Jezebel and Georgina, romp seductively through their own blog - Magical Minxes.  In a further creative twist, Jackie has let Jezebel have another blog - Cat and Muse - in which Jezebel interviews the characters from other books!

These blogs are a riot to read and with this kind of talent, these ladies’ books, when they are released, should be high on your to-be-read pile.  They will be on mine.

   Hell's Belles          Eight Grade Bites     Succubus Blues

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