Booking Through Thursday (36)

I haven’t participated in BTT since December, but this week’s meme caught my eye:

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

I do read author blogs!  Here are the one’s I subscribe to (in alphabetical order):

• Laurie Halse Anderson – I’m a new subscriber to this one and haven’t really fallen in love. This is more a photo journal of book events. There aren’t a lot of personal insights or info about the writing process thus far.
• Libba Bray – Libby is funny, though she can go on sometimes.
• Meg Waite Clayton – I actually just subscribed to this one today, after reading Trish’s BTT post.
• The Debutante Ball – This actually a grog (a group blog) about five soon-to-be-published authors. The debs handoff their grogging batons each year to new authors.
• Neil Gaiman – Okay, probably the most-read author’s blog, ever. It’s awesome though.
• Shannon Hale – I love Shannon Hale, and I love her blog. She writes about publishing and about her writing process, and she also has cool interviews with other writer pals of hers.
• Joshilyn Jackson – I don’t always read Joshilyn’s blogs because they only partially appear in my Google Reader, and I’m too lazy to click through half the time. However, she’s hilarious.
• J. Scott Savage – You all probably recognize this name from his blog tour this year.  He blogs about writing and publishing and some personal things.

My favorite author-blogs are Shannon Hale’s and Neil Gaiman’s, hands down.

As for what I look for in a writer’s blog, I’m kind of open.  I like reading about writing; I like reading about books that are forthcoming; I like reading about the personal lives of the authors; I like reading about their publishing experiences or their book tours.  I just like to follow along with some of these people who are living their writing dreams.

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