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To continue on in the same vein of Margot’s earlier post, I have decided to dedicate this entry to all the great publishing industry blogs that are paving the way for the rest of us.  In an age where information is so easy to come by, and the attention span of the average internet surfer is getting shorter by the second, it takes a special eye for news and an ingenious voice to keep loyal followers.  These blogs have all found the magic formula.

First is my personal favorite, Galleycat: the perfect way to combine procrastination and work into one.  The articles are all extremely informative and full of industry insight, but all have the feel of an afternoon brain snack.  Another blog not to miss is that of Nathan Bransford, who has worked in the industry as author and literary agent, and is now moving to the tech field.  His blog is full of useful links, complete with publishing essentials for query letter writing and manuscript formatting, extensive lists of publisher, writer, and agent/editor blogs,  book blogs, and literary journals.  You can get lost in this site for hours.  Follow The Reader is yet another blog to keep an eye on.  There is no doubt that NetGalley is one of the leaders of innovation in the publishing industry, and this is reason enough to watch out for their blog.

For those of you writers out there looking to build your platform, there are a number of great writer blogs out there to glean some ideas from.  For some reason I am drawn to the blogs of YA authors, specifically Adrienne Kress,  Natalie Whipple and T.H. Mafi, who has a particularly entertaining entry about why it would be fun to date Dumbledore.  Other genre authors blog too!  Check out romance author Sara Freeze, thriller writers Alex Scarrow and Debi Alper, poet Kevin Wenger, David Isaak, who is part of MacMillan New Writers Group, and Emily Benet, the winner of the Author Blog awards in the Published Category.

There are many more out there to be discovered.  What are some of your favorite author blogs?