Yesterdays Big Thing

I like to keep my ear close to the street to keep abreast of what's happening out there and the latest buzz is that things aren't going to well for bloggers who think they can knock out a book. An article on Librarians Place sums it up quite nicely in pointing out that the "bloggers book deal" bubble may well have already burst and that, although bloggers books were popular two years ago, sales of any books who can find their roots in blogs are now very disappointing and often fail to recover the initial advance. Perhaps Anya's agent will advise her to get into Science Fiction as a recent post on "Whatever" backs up the cold hard facts that blog writers do not make good authors unless specializing in fiction. What's that you say? She already is dealing in it ?!? The "Whatever" article even goes so far as to blame the publishers themselves for pandering to the hopes and aspirations of the would be authors in the vain hope that they can ride the crest of the "bloggers write good books" wave. Lord knows what would happen if a desperate person, down on their luck and who harboured aspirations of being an author was approached by an agent claiming to be able to get them a book deal (who would naturally get a percentage of any advance fee) based on the premise that "misery memoirs" were big at the moment. It just doesn't bear thinking about, does it folks .........