It was a journalist that this weekend alerted me to the: Blooker Blog, where the shortlisted blooks for this year's runners-up for the Blooker price are currently listed. The winners should be announced on the site later today (US time, I presume?). What is the blooker price then? It is a price given to the best print book published, that started as a blog or web comics. Categories are: fiction, non-fiction and comics. There are in fact quite a few books on the shortlist, I had no idea there were so many blooks out there! (but only books written in English, sadly, someone should tell them to inaugurate a non-English blooks category for next year).

Reason why I was contacted by journalist, is that tomorrow the first Danish blook is published, by "Spacemermaid" who's been writing about her single/not-single/break-up/in relationship/etc life in her Spacemermaid blog at the Urban blog community and over at Fyldepennen.dk (from 2004-2006 - her blog there no longer available??). She also got known in the Danish blogosphere when some anonymous person without much fantasy of (her?) own published posts copy-pasted directly from Spacemermaid's early posts over at TV2 blogs, and had a few moments of her own fame, before she got busted. That blog is down now, but you can still see Spacemermaid's posts on the matter, if you go a few months back. Oh, and looking at her blog now, I see she is now launching her own blog domain as part of the branding of the book.

Congratulations to Spacemermaid on getting the book out there, according to her own profile at Urban, she was actually offered her first opportunity of book publishing back in January 2006, so it's been coming a long time :). Having your writings published in a bound book still appear to be the official stamp of acknowledgement, blogs havent changed that yet!
# posted by Lisbeth at: 09:30