Apparently, Penguin has discovered time-travel. They recently (7/27/06) announced that they were starting the first blog from a mainstream publisher, and a kind soul was nice enough to note that Eos had this blog already. We appreciate the shout-out, but actually we're the latest kid on the Harper block to have a blog (we did, however, start the online newsletters and first reader reviews at the company, but...).
Our Harper sister blog, The Olive Reader, started 9/22/05. We also have The Cruelest Month, all about poetry from Ecco Press, which started well before our blog, and the Avon romance blog is older than we are as well. If your reading tastes go beyond speculative fiction, these are all great blogs. Plus we have publishing guru Carl Lennertz (formerly the man behind Booksense) at Publishing Insider.
And that's not looking at the many non-Harper sf/f blogs that are out there, like those from Pyr, the University of Nebraska, and the Holtzbrinck blog (and I'm probably missing some). Much less all the Tor stuff on Livejournal and Making Light.
But more publishing blogs means more people clicking pages about books, which is great, so welcome Penguin. And personally, I am thrilled that time travel is going mainstream--where's my Tardis??
-- Diana
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