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www.TimBete.com. Here’s a humor blog for grown-ups. Tim Bete
uses this site to publish his award-winning parenting humor column,
previously featured in the Christian Science Monitor and several
parenting magazines. He used the blog as a launch pad for his 2005 book
In the Beginning … There Were No Diapers.
Politics
www.glenngreenwald.blogspot.com. Passions run high on
political blogs, and the field is a rich training ground for authors. Glenn
Greenwald, a constitutional law attorney who started the blog
Unclaimed Territory in 2005, was recruited just eight months later to
write How Would a Patriot Act? Thanks to exposure on Greenwald’s
blog and seven others, the book made it to Amazon’s No. 1 spot and the
New York Times bestseller list before it was even in print. Like many
blog-to-book successes, this one was grass-roots—it wasn’t promoted in
review publications like Publishers Weekly or Kirkus Reviews and was
ignored by mainstream print and television media.
Greenwald went from rookie blogger to bestselling author in six
months.
Arts and crafts
www.52Projects.com. Arts and crafts are a natural for bloggers
with a knack for teaching. Author Jeff Yamaguchi, publisher of the
popular crafts blog 52Projects, translated the success of his blog into a
spin-off book, 52 Projects: Random Acts of Everyday Creativity,
published by Perigee. The book’s success fueled further traffic to his
blog, and spawned an online community.
Diaries
www.Wilwheaton.typepad.com. Wil Wheaton is a former child
star best known for his role in the 1986 film Stand By Me and his
boyhood run on Star Trek: The Next Generation. After a 1990s lull,
Wheaton re-invented his career by blogging, then self-publishing. His
first book, Dancing Barefoot, expanded on his autobiographical blog
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