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Blooker Prize created and the world groans at yet another blog [plus] word amalgamation

Self-publishing website, Lulu.com, has created the Blooker Prize to celebrate authors who began by writing blogs and “have turned them into fiction, non-fiction and comic “blooks” in print form.”

Roger van der Horst, education editor said that although they hadn’t yet received the “blooks”, a likely contender might be Julie and Julia, a book based on Julie Powell’s Salon.com blog where she decided to cook (and blog) everything in Julia Child’s 1961 classic Mastering the Art of French Cooking.

According to van der Horst, blogs are becoming a larger influence on traditional writing because they offer good discipline and “they tend to be interactive because your readers can respond to what you’re doing. You have ongoing editors, for better or worse. … Some people blog their books as they are writing them so they can get feedback as they go, so that other people can do research on them and comment on them.”

The judging criteria will include being well-written, having “all the elements of a good book anywhere” and “someone’s ability to do basic storytelling, to write well, to write paragraphs that make sense.”

I don’t know about you, but I am on pins and needles. Oscar season be damned; I’m betting on the Blookies!

Newobserver.com via Anger Management

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