Author

The tag Author is a popular tag often used by bloggers discussing the people who write and create books. Many authors also blog regularly and their blogs have huge followings. Some examples include the blogs of Meg Cabot, author of The Princess Diaries, and Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point. Anastasia Suen has a nice listing of children's book author blogs on her web site.

More and more often, book publishing companies are relying less often on traditional book tours, and the burden is increasingly placed on the author to use their own blogs as a key means of promoting their books. In addition to using their blog to promote their own work, many authors are using their blogs to promote the work of other authors. A great example of this is Cynsations by the author Cynthia Leitich Smith.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Author”

• Cheerleader spotlight

  
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• Connecting with Colleagues

  
  I.N.K. — Authority: 421
  Every two years, a group of dedicated teachers and librarians, some retired, bring about 20 authors to the Eureka, California, area to join some local authors in The Author Festival, when we make presentions to area schools and offer books for sale at the library. On one day I visited Trinity Valley School, out in ...
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• Pump Up Your Book Promotion’s November Authors on Virtual Book Tour – Day 6

  
  Pump Up Your Book Promotion Virtual Book Tours — Authority: 124
  Welcome to Day Six of Pump Up Your Book Promotion’s November Authors on Virtual Book Tour ! Follow along as these talented authors travel the blogosphere all month long to talk about their books, their lives and their future projects. Leave a comment at their blog stops and you could win a FREE virtual book tour if ...
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• new movie cant beat the real-life men who stare at goats

  
  media monarchy — Authority: 435
  from danger room: Maybe the greatest conspiracy of all was turning The Men Who Stare at Goats into another middlebrow Hollywood action flick — complete with a saccharine ending.In a 2004 hilarious and mind-bending book, British journalist Jon Ronson recounts his efforts to uncover a loose network of military ...
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• The Source of Miracles by Kathleen McGowan

  
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• Sunday statistical highlights

  
  Full of Sports — Authority: 541
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• Leading ladies shine at Miami Book Fair kickoff

  
  Between the Covers — Authority: 130
  Miami Book Fair International kicked off Sunday night at Miami Dade College with novelist Margaret Atwood, poet Elizabeth Alexander and a fingers-crossed hope that troublesome Hurricane Ida keeps heading north. With Ida on track for the northern Gulf Coast, fair organizers breathed a figurative sigh of relief ...
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  Yesterdays signing went really well--the mall was crowded and Barnes and Nobles and the coordinators from CFRWA did a wonderful job making sure everything ran like clockwork. You can see two pages of event and author photos at Terry Odells Website and also at Lucienne Divers blog. I was yakking away with readers, ...
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• How To Build Your Author Brand With A weRead Author Profile

  
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  "One of the solutions to the issue of finding your audience is weRead. That’s the book discovery tool Lulu acquired last year that makes use of social networks to help authors find new readers and readers find new authors. More than 3 million people already use the site to rate and review the books they read, and ...
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• A Report from Winter by Wayne Courtois

  
  Elisa - My reviews and Ramblings — Authority: 140
  Yes, I know, when you read a book you should try to judge it for the book itself and not for your personal experience, above all if the book is not fiction, but a memoir. People are different and they behave in a different way in front of the same event. Anyway, I cant read a book about a dying parent, without ...
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• NZ/Aus Authors: Anna Campbell - Captive of Sin

  
  Nalini Singh's Weblog — Authority: 492
  Today, we continue the series of monthly guest posts by authors from my part of the world with the talented Anna Campbell . Shes talking tortured heroes (ooooh) and giving away a copy of her latest release Captive of Sin , which was just named as one of the best mass market releases of 2009 by Publishers Weekly ...
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• Back online

  
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• Tim Kaine’s Inartful Spin Exposed

  
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• Sympathy by Jordan Castillo Price

  
  Elisa - My reviews and Ramblings — Authority: 140
  Due to the time of release, Hallowen, and the author, Jordan Castillo Price and her vampires and psycops, I was expecting something "paranormal" from this seasonal novella, and instead, to my surprise and delight, it was a very nice, and normal, romance, with a good love story. Tony was in a bad accident and now, ...
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• Buy or Sell? Guys Off to a Fast Start

  
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• Interview with Charlie Lovett, author of The Program, at BBW Reviews

  
  The Pearlsong Letter — Authority: 103
  BBW Reviews has posted an interview with Charlie Lovett, author of the novel The Program. Those who comment on the interview will have a chance of winning a copy of the book, about an evil weight loss clinic and the...
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• Truth or Fiction by Jennifer Johnston

  
  Reading Matters — Authority: 422
  Fiction - hardcover; Headline Review; 160 pages; 2009. Review copy courtesy of the publisher. Jennifer Johnston does a nice line in slightly kooky characters, and her latest novel, to be published on November 16, is no exception. Desmond Fitzmaurice, one of two main characters in Truth or Fiction , is a doddery ...
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• Impact-Douglas Preston

  
  Alternative Worlds — Authority: 136
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