The
very model of a modern author
website
Authors and
publishers who are still wondering what kind of information
they should be putting on this thing called the Internet
should take a look at the
website D.F. Bailey has
built for his new novel, The Good
Lie (Turnstone
Press). He’s got a detailed synopsis of the book, the first
page of text, and book club questions – but that’s only
scratching the surface. Also on the site are an essay about
the genesis of the book, a “novel diary” with notes made
during the years Bailey was writing the novel – including
material that he cut from it – plus a bio of Turnstone
editor Wayne Tefs, some of the e-mails that Tefs and Bailey
traded regarding the editing of the book, and more.
He also links to Turnstone, though, sadly, his book doesn’t
seem to appear anywhere on the publisher’s own site. Sigh.
Anyway, Quillblog is impressed – blown away, even. And we
have to wonder, if Bailey can do this without the support
of a multinational publisher, why is a site like this one
such a rarity?
We also can’t help contrasting such a generous,
content-rich initiative with the recent embargo trend we’re
seeing among large and medium-sized presses – the apparent
desire to cling to information jealously.
Posted by Derek
Weiler on August 30, 2007 Reproduced from
from Quillblog
