authors

The tag Authors 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 blogs by children's book authors 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 authors 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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• Apartment 14F: An Oriental Ghost Story

  
  Hellnotes — Authority: 138
  Damnation Books has released Apartment 14F: An Oriental Ghost Story, a new novella by Christian Saunders.
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• Anton Chekhov

  
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  “Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.”
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• Bad Attitude Gets Blogger Blackballed from RWA

  
  mediabistro.com: GalleyCat — Authority: 666
  Last night, Dear Author co-editor Jane Litte posted the contents of a rather unusual letter from the Romance Writers of America , in which professional relations manager Carol Ritter informed the romance blogger that, after three years as an associate member of RWA, she would not be permitted to renew her ...
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• "Are these YOUR children?"

  
  FamilyLife MomBlog — Authority: 127
  Editors Note: In honor of National Adoption Month we welcome Mitzi McBride as a special guest post contributor. Mitzi and her husband Shane are part of the Hope for Orphans team here at FamilyLife. by Mitzi McBride "Once our eyes are opened, we cant pretend we dont know what to do. God, who weighs our hearts ...
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• Mysteries of Nature

  
  DarcKnyt — Authority: 421
  I know it’s in my nature to write.  To want to write, anyway.  But getting to the keyboard and actually turning something out has proven to be a challenge, and not in a good way.The why behind not writing has, therefore, been very mysterious to me.  No matter how I tried I just couldn’t [...]
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• Hitch Goes Blomkvist

  
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  Christopher Hitchens pens an essay on the singular, postmortem career of Stieg Larsson for Vanity Fair.
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• Writing For Video Game Genres

  
  Video Games Blog — Authority: 136
  Aeonite writes “The third book in a pseudo-trilogy, Writing for Video Game Genres: From FPS to RPG, offers advice from 21 experts in the field of video game writing, pulled from the ranks of the IGDA’s Game Writers Special Interest Group and wrangled together by editor Wendy Despain. It follows in the footsteps of ...
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• Interview with Ann Pearlman, author of The Christmas Cookie Club

  
  Bermudaonion's Weblog — Authority: 532
  Earlier this month, I read and reviewed The Christmas Cookie Club by Ann Pearlman.  I really enjoyed the book and was lucky enough to have the opportunity to ask Ann a few questions.  Here’s what she had to say: THE CHRISTMAS COOKIE CLUB is so different from your other books.  What made you decide to tell this ...
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• Oh my aching sides.

  
  The Bedside Crow — Authority: 420
  So should online retailers pay a modest levy on their substantial profits to reward independent bookshops for drumming up their trade? Tom Sutcliffe ponders the future of his local independent bookshop - without doing any maths, save for simple subtraction, and dont get me started on the irony of his book example of ...
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• HARD TO HOLD by Stephanie Tyler

  
  RR@H Novel Thoughts & Book Talk — Authority: 426
  I had a free day on the blog today and decided to do another giveaway. I’ve got two copies of HARD TO HOLD by Stephanie Tyler  and if you’d like a go at winning one, just leave a comment under this post. Winners will be announced on Sunday. Good luck! Maximum danger. Maximum desire. And holding on ...
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• The Oxymoronic Genre – Erotic Urban Fantasy

  
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  by Teal Ceagh , guest blogger and author of Mias Return . People tend to look at me oddly when I tell them I write erotic urban fantasy. Paranormal romances are everywhere these days. Even erotic paranormals are almost commonplace. But when you say you write erotic urban fantasies, readers’ eyes narrow as they ...
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• Instructional Glamour Photography Lighting Videos

  
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  Learn photography tips tricks and glamour photography techniques in this series of free glamour photos instructional videos
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• How to photograph a splash of water – Week 52

  
  The Medium Format Camera Site The Medium-Format Photography Blog — Authority: 166
  Cant see the video? Click here www.youtube.com Make a splash with your photography as digital photography expert Gavin Hoey www.gavtrain.com demonstrates the strobist set up required to capture the beauty hidden in a drop of water. ... Photography set up tutorial technique strobist flash off camera macro still life ...
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• Kress Terrace Wedding Photography

  
  The Medium Format Camera Site The Medium-Format Photography Blog — Authority: 166
  Elizabeth and Jerry enjoy the thrills of downtown Greensboro, and exchange vows on the rooftop of Kress Terrace. Photography by Scott Evangelista, Babs Evangelista, and Wendy Weeks.
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• Joel Tjintjelaar’s Black and White Photography Collage

  
  The Medium Format Camera Site The Medium-Format Photography Blog — Authority: 166
  Heres some of my latest work. Most pictures are shot with a 10 stops ND filter to create a long exposure. You can view the pictures larger on my Flickr page: www.flickr.com If you want to know how I created these images, take a look at my website: www.bwvision.com On ...
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• Doesn’t add up

  
  Bookwitch — Authority: 129
  For a while there I lost my entire teen years. I read the interview with Maj Sjöwall in the Observer at breakfast, and after my first incredulous thought that ‘It can’t have been that long ago!’ I threw myself over Wikipedia to check my facts. And theirs. I was right. It was a relief to find I hadn’t ...
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• Fallout caused me to lose sleep.

  
  Simply Sensational Divas Review — Authority: 115
  Fallout by C. L. Talmadge is the second in the mystic (I think thats the correct word) series Green Stone of Healing. I reviewed the first book, called The Vision , here . I loved them both! I lost sleep; I had quit taking books to bed because I was so tired that I was falling asleep before Id even read a page. ...
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• Post-Great-Emergence

  
  Subversive Influence — Authority: 107
  I spent last evening with an exceptional group of folks having some great conversation. Among the nine of us, it was billed as a debrief session for The Great Emergence conference with Phyllis Tickle a few weeks back. The four of us panelists/workshop leaders ( Jamie Howison , Jamie Arpin-Ricci , Lesley Harrison , ...
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• Red Planet, Wet Planet

  
  The Cimmerian — Authority: 137
    “I knew it!” Leigh shouted, punching her fist into the air. “I told you sons of… sons what it would be like years ago!” A rebel yell cut loose, and suddenly the room was a babble of voices. – Leigh Brackett (in an alternate timeline), as envisioned by S.M. Stirling in his novel, In the Courts ...
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• Great Games for Our Family

  
  Simply Sensational Divas Review — Authority: 115
  Great Games: 175 Games and Activities for Families, Groups and Children by Matthew Toone This book was a walk down memory lane for me. As I flipped through the pages of games I recognized many games my father taught my brothers and I to play. These games are ones that he and his siblings would play when they were ...
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