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Booking Through Thursday - Authors Talking

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

Go here if you'd like to join this week's topic of conversation.  You can link your own post or join just in comments.

Well, when I read this weeks meme, I first thought, "No", but then I remembered a newly published author that I've been keeping tabs on.  I'm reading her first novel now, "Around the World in 80 Dates"  and am looking forward to the next.

I'm just about as good with knowing authors of books as I am at remembering or knowing singers/bands of songs or details of movies.  There are, of course, some that I know, but even some of my favorites leave me blank when I try to bring them up in conversation - so I don't, usually.  Trivia, forget it.

What about you?  Do you read author's blog to get more info on them personally, their work or something else?

Happy Reading!!
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Wendy said…
Since I like writing myself, I enjoy hearing about their writing habits, routines and stuff about the publishing industry. The inner workings is interesting to me.
Saturday, May 2, 2009 at 9:58:00 PM CST
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