I read a lot of blogs by literary agents and writers on a daily basis, and one of my favorite aspects of blogging is the more casual aspect of it. Most bloggers discuss more than just work, work, work all the time, so you get the occasional posts on movies or TV shows or comic books, or whatever hobbies the blogger is interested in. Even when the hobby is something I'm not interested in, I always enjoy reading of the things other people are passionate about.
But my favorite blogger, hands-down, is
Nathan Bransford, a literary agent for Curtis Brown (his
blogger account is more active than his MySpace page). Consistently funny, informative, and nice, even his posts about some TV show called
The Hills are interesting and hilarious. Check out today's "This Week In Publishing." He's running another contest on his blog next week (though he hasn't decided what form it's going to take). He usually offers some sort of query or writing sample critique as a prize.
By the way, he also answers questions in the Ask The Agent forum of the Absolute Write boards.
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It's Friday night, and my plans are to exercise, edit my book some more, work on the living room remodeling, and do laundry. Boy, the hedonists are probably wild with jealousy at all the excitement in my life.