{"id":1132,"date":"2006-03-24T21:25:40","date_gmt":"2006-03-25T02:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=1132"},"modified":"2006-03-24T21:25:40","modified_gmt":"2006-03-25T02:25:40","slug":"wsj-blooker-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wsj-blooker-article\/","title":{"rendered":"WSJ &#8211; Blooker article"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article_email\/SB114322453767507639-lMyQjAxMDE2NDIzNDIyMjQ0Wj.html\">The Wall Street Journal article on the Blooker Prize <\/a>is out (and will be out in print tomorrow).  Great coverage informed I think somewhat by the long phone call to Buenos Aires that I had with the author, Ian Mount, on Wednesday. Cory and I aren&#8217;t directly quoted or mentioned (only indirectly) which is okay.<br \/>\nI love that the Executive Editor of Little Brown says first what a hit <em>&#8220;Julie and Julia&#8221;<\/em> turned out to be, but then warns other editors and publishers away from blogs (the better to keep that resource to herself?):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Little, Brown Executive Editor Judy Clain, who acquired &#8220;Julie and Julia,&#8221; says she was amazed by the boost the book got from fans of the blog. &#8220;What we underestimated was how huge the audience was,&#8221; she says.<\/p>\n<p>Still, not every blogger is a born author. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think a blog is a great place to look for new writers,&#8221; says Ms. Clain, &#8220;because there are so many, and so many aren&#8217;t very good.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wall Street Journal article on the Blooker Prize is out (and will be out in print tomorrow). Great coverage informed I think somewhat by the long phone call to Buenos Aires that I had with the author, Ian Mount, on Wednesday. Cory and I aren&#8217;t directly quoted or mentioned (only indirectly) which is okay. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1,11,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amusements","category-general","category-literature","category-news-of-news","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}