NZS.com Blog : New Zealand Internet and Web Space Blog » writers http://www.nzs.com/blog Blog of New Zealand Sites Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:08:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Christchurch Writers Festival Blog http://www.nzs.com/blog/nzs-blog-post/christchurch-writers-festival-blog/ http://www.nzs.com/blog/nzs-blog-post/christchurch-writers-festival-blog/#comments Mon, 08 Sep 2008 02:45:29 +0000 Lee Suckling http://www.nzs.com/blog/nzs-blog-post/christchurch-writers-festival-blog/ Being in Christchurch, I was lucky enough to attend some of the Writers Festival events that we held here over the last three days. The festival was a truly massive gathering of literary folk young and old, all keen to listen to some of their favourite authors speak. I witnessed international-scale book signings, and even a few celebrity sightings.

The most interesting for me and relevant to NZS.com was, of course, the panel discussion about blogging.The session featured legendary Los Angelino lit-blogger Mark Sarvas, whose blog The Elegant Variation has been named one of the best on the Web by publications Forbes and Entertainment Weekly.

Sarvas had a very interesting take on the importance of blogging for self-promotion, as he blogged of the process of his last novel whist writing it. Upon the book’s completion, he contacted several publishing agents (some of whom had been keeping up with his blog) and just minutes after first contact, he had sold his novel. The agent who acquired the novel’s rights had been regularly visiting Sarvas’ blog and knew he was about to contact potential publishers, so was eager to jump on the rights as soon as Sarvas let the world know he had finished it.

Blogging for business

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isn’t just restricted for self-promotion, so make sure your company regularly contributes to the blogosphere – you might find your next client is a regular visitor!

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