Authors' Personal Blogs

• Backstory: Guest bloggers tell how they came to write a specific book. This is a great place to pick up new, fun reading material!


• Faster Than Kudzu by Joshilyn Jackson: An intensely personal blog, by one of the funniest women writing about serious subjects today.
  
  
• Hypergraffiti by Trudy Morgan-Cole: One of my favorite authors, this is also a very personal look at a writer's brain in action.
• No Rules. Just Write by Brenda Colter: A inspirational romance author publishes the pulse of her life, the industry in general, and romance writing in particular.
  


• Tess Gerritsen's Blog: A NYT-bestselling author shares a personal glimpse of the writer's life.


• Paperback Writer by Lynn Viehl: An extremely prolific NYT-bestselling author, offers tips and insights, and weekly contests with books for prizes.

Get Noticed

• American Author: Offers powerful, affordable, and easy to use websites (like this one!), specifically designed for authors.


• Southern Comfort: Southern author Karin Gillespie blogs about how authors can successfully promote their books.


• Buzz, Balls & Hype: Author M. J. Rose offers another great blog to teach authors how to market books after they're written and sold.

Agent Blogs

• Miss Snark: Anonymous New York City literary agent dished up $250-an-hour advice, with a side order of salt and spice. Though Miss Snark is no longer posting, the archives are invaluable.
• LitSoup: Jenny Rappaport, an agent with Lori Perkins, blogs about the agenting life.
• Nathan Bransford: A Curtis Brown agent shares his wisdom and a wicked sense of humor.
• Lyons Literary: Jonathan Lyons offers an education in agenting. Note, particularly, his "Word of the Week," where he defines industry lingo such as "flow-through" and "women's fiction."
• Agent in the Middle: Lori Perkins shares a very personal take on agenting in NYC.
• Pub Rants: Kristin Nelson, a "very nice literary agent" in Denver blogs about the business. Nelson is notable for representing fiction exclusively, including category fiction.

Just for Fun

• Postsecret: A fascinating community art project that allows a peek into a new batch of personal lives every Sunday.
• Google Sightseeing: Fascinating glimpses of earth from space. My favorite entries are those that result from Google's new Street Level view.
• Pandora: Create your own internet radio station, based on songs you like.