Eoin Purcell
Depressing & Excellent
One of my favourite blogs Twenty Major (Tagline: Still Smoking in Dublin’s Bars) has, if Sinead Gleeson is to be belived, gotten a two book deal with Hodder Headline.
One half of me is really happy and the other sad becuase there is little chance of me competing with Headline for those books and I would dearly have loved to be the publisher of such an irreverent, comic and talented writer. If Headline were willing to secure one Irish Blogger no doubt others will follow to the big publishers. But thems is the breaks I suppose.
Seems like the old Blog to Book trend is no Fad (though I echo James’ thoughts earlier)
Loving this Cardigans album not enjoying looking for a new place to live
Eoin
Filed under: Authors, Books, Bookselling, Future of Media, Future of Publishing, Acquisitions, blog to book, blooks, Publishing Companies, Trend Vs Fad Watch, Writer
Thanks for the tip about Twenty Major. My first visit there this morning – better than coffee to start the day.
[...] Eoin Purcell and Booktwo don’t hold much with blooks being a sustainable market – but it is still a very innovative and accomodating platform for writers to flaunt their wares to potential audiences and publishers. It is not unusual for Bloggers to be recruited as columists for newspapers, why should books be any different? (Just as the number of new bloggers being taken on by newspapers has slowed, the number of book deals being handed out will also slow down.) [...]