Wednesday, October 05, 2005
mamamusings - another side effect of blogging
mamamusings: "He was an early adopter—CompuServe, GEnie, the WELL. Then when he finished American Gods, he discovered blogging. He told his editor he wanted to write about what happens between when you type “the end” and when the book hits the bestseller list. Nobody ever hears that story—what happens with getting rights to song lyrics, for example?
He had a great time writing the stories on the blog—and when the book came out, he had 20K readers of his blog! So he carried on. It was like the online community sites he’d used before in many ways.
Currently the blog has 1.2 million individual visitors (he doesn’t say in what time period—is that monthly? weekly?). That meant there were many people looking forward to the release of Anansi Boys, who went out and bought it as soon as it was released. (“And suddenly, Dan Brown was ground beneath my heel,” he says, to widespread laughter.)
But, he points out, it was a side effect of the blog, not the purpose of it. (This is really important…)"
He had a great time writing the stories on the blog—and when the book came out, he had 20K readers of his blog! So he carried on. It was like the online community sites he’d used before in many ways.
Currently the blog has 1.2 million individual visitors (he doesn’t say in what time period—is that monthly? weekly?). That meant there were many people looking forward to the release of Anansi Boys, who went out and bought it as soon as it was released. (“And suddenly, Dan Brown was ground beneath my heel,” he says, to widespread laughter.)
But, he points out, it was a side effect of the blog, not the purpose of it. (This is really important…)"
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