Blogging, Bleaders, and Blookers

I was reading one of my favorite blogs, French Word-A-Day; bringing you a thrice weekly slice of French Life, when I discovered there is now a literary prize for books written from blogs. The Blooker Prize, is the first literary prize for "blooks", books based on blogs or web sites. The best known of these is Julie Powell’s blog which was published as Julie and Julia: 365 days, 524 recipes, 1 tiny apartment. This book is one of the first recipients of the Blooker Prize, and was enjoyed by the DPL staff. Julie's blog evolved from a project she set herself to cook all the recipes in Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking in a year. Her posts were amusing, interesting, and involving. She and blog readers (bleaders) developed a relationship, word of mouth made her famous, leading to mainstream media interviews, and finally a publisher.

Do you write a blog? Let us know, we would like to read it!