Types of Author Blogs

There are a number of different types or styles of blogs. The most basic type of blog is the Daily Diary blog. It's easy to get started. Just remember when you were a kid and kept a diary. (If you didn't keep a diary, use your imagination. You're a writer, after all.) Sit down at your computer and start typing "Dear Diary, today I ....." and fill in the blanks. Then remove the "Dear Diary" intro and you're set. The goal here is to create entries which are more exciting than the ones you wrote when you were eight, but considerably less embarrassing than the ones you wrote when you were seventeen. Some authors seem surprised that readers would like to hear about their daily battles with the cable company, their root canal or their impending hot date. An entire industry is founded on the fact that people love to read about celebrities' lives. If a reader has read your book and enjoyed your writing style, many times she'd like to read more of your writing while she's waiting for your next book to come out. But because of the slowness of print, your new fan may have to wait an entire year to see what happens next to your characters. Keep her interested with your blog entries so that when the next book comes out she hasn't forgotten all about you and your characters. Of course, some authors are better at blogging than their peers. One author can make a trip to the grocery store sound interesting, while another might have flown to the International Space Station as a space tourist and manage to make a dull story of it. It's not what you blog about, it's how you blog. Write from the heart, write about what interests you and chances are it will interest your readers as well.