Following Austen was mentioned in "The State of the Blook" on Future Perfect Publishing and in this post at Blooking Central.
I'll be sending Cheryl more info about the blooking process, but for me, it was a way to get pieces of the book out there and connect with an audience -- to promote the book before it came out and help demonstrate to a publisher that I was serious about promoting it. To that end, it's been very successful.
Other "blookers" like Julie Powell of Julie and Julia fame just started blogging and then had a book deal come their way.

Very, very few fiction blogs have been traditionally published; many more so have been self-published. I look forward to hearing more details about your success.
Posted by: Cheryl Hagedorn | October 12, 2007 at 09:24 AM