Comments on: Author homepages

Author homepages

rushmc — Mon, 01 Dec 2003 08:28:48 -0800

Self-referential or self-promoting sites created by authors (as opposed to their fans or publishers) can provide fascinating insights into the person behind the writing or provide ways to interact with the writer or the works that go beyond the initial reading. Some take advantage of the web to connect with readers, while others use it as a mere marketing tool. With the recent trend in writers who blog (a separate category) abandoning their blogs to regain time for their writing, are these types of personal pages also an endangered species?

By: rushmc

rushmc — Mon, 01 Dec 2003 08:29:09 -0800

Any favorites?

By: gottabefunky

gottabefunky — Mon, 01 Dec 2003 09:20:03 -0800

So I guess it would be bad to self-link to my own site that I just put up?

By: pxe2000

pxe2000 — Mon, 01 Dec 2003 09:25:20 -0800

you mean you put this entire post together without puttung up a link to neil gaiman's website? or is he in the "writers that blog" category?

By: Hildegarde

Hildegarde — Mon, 01 Dec 2003 10:01:29 -0800

Or Holly Black.

By: thomas j wise

thomas j wise — Mon, 01 Dec 2003 10:09:13 -0800

Strictly speaking, it's a page devoted to a single novel, but I still like Geoff Ryman's interactive novel 253 (which is not quite the same as the print version).

By: kristin

kristin — Mon, 01 Dec 2003 11:09:02 -0800

Jennifer Weiner has a very accessible weblog, called SnarkSpot. "My husband and I have had lots of talks about how we'd handle a nerdy, socially inept kid (having both been NSIKs ourselves, we can deliver multiple, fairly convincing versions of the "Your life will not suck like this forever" speech)." Like her books, don't like her books, but her blog is very funny.

By: lobakgo

lobakgo — Mon, 01 Dec 2003 13:15:28 -0800

Charles De Lint's is interesting, but not pretty. You have to pick through it. I thought he used to have info. on the annual used, rare, etc. booksale they had at their house. They gave a map to their house for it. Also the wonderful Daniel Pinkwater, with a fun photo page.

By: Ogre Lawless

Ogre Lawless — Mon, 01 Dec 2003 13:28:14 -0800

Is there an actual trend towards authors dropping their blogs in favor of writing in excess of that in the normal populace? I would imagine it follows a fairly rough approximation of the rest of the online world: some take it, some leave it. I'm sure authors, especially those such as Gibson and Gaiman, feel some pressure to be "with it" and produce blogs, but to what extent? I can see some concern with not wanting to rob yourself of writing time and perhaps equating blogging with whatever sort of creative endeavors pay the bills, but the same could probably be said for any such distraction.

By: mecran01

mecran01 — Mon, 01 Dec 2003 16:01:26 -0800

Gibson quit his blog. Orson Scott Card has lost weight. Come to think of it, so has Cory Doctorow of BoingBoing. A strange trend, perhaps.

By: rory

rory — Tue, 02 Dec 2003 02:14:53 -0800

I'm a long-time Jonathan Carroll fan. Ursula K. Le Guin has a good site, too. Douglas Coupland's showcases his art and design as well as his books. Ian McEwan's has an extensive bibliography of works by and about him. Others worth a look include Chuck Palahniuk, Stephen Fry, Tony Hawks, and on the non-fiction side, James Gleick, John McCrone and Tom Standage. And now that Mil Millington has two fine novels out, his site is officially an author site. (Gone but not forgotten: Joe Queenan's.)

By: kliuless

kliuless — Thu, 04 Dec 2003 17:38:30 -0800

jt leroy and piers anthony :D oh and super flat !