Bloggers gone . . . Bookers?

Although I saw Julie and Julia (and read snatches of it at the bookstore) I'd largely avoided novels by bloggers until recently.  Since having my baby, I've followed www.dooce.com pretty religiously -- the author is a "mommy blogger" who is irreverent, funny, and honest in her posts.  She also wrote a book chronicling her first pregnancy and post-partum depression, which I recently read.  My takeaway lesson from the book is that what works really well as a blog doesn't necessarily transition well into book form.  (A sublesson is that if you tend to write in ALL CAPS A LOT, your editor is not worth his/her salt if he/she does not BREAK YOU OF THAT HABIT.)  I think that, if I'd read the contents of the book broken up into blog posts, I would have enjoyed it, but somehow the book felt like just that -- a bunch of blog posts stuck together.

It Sucked and Then I Cried: How I Had a Baby, a Breakdown, and a Much Needed Margarita

Heather Armstrong