Blogging about Podcasting about Blogging (and Podcasting)

[cassiphone]

Originally published at tansyrr.com. You can comment here or there.

Today I spent a very pleasant hour chatting to Helen Merrick (esteemed author of The Secret Feminist Cabal and 50% of the much-missed-and-anticipated-to-return podcast The PanGalactic Interwebs) in an interview-lecture on the topic of author blogging for a creative writing course at

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[jo1967]

I have been reading your blog for ages now, via Alisa via Gillian.... I've also bought and enjoyed a couple of your books - not because you've actively pushed them on the blog but because you blogged about the process of writing them. I've felt a part of the process almost, so that I had to read them - lucky they were good, eh? I like reading about you and your kids, especially as your eldest daughter is almost the same age as mine, but in an interested, totally non-stalkerish way, honest!

[cassiphone]

I love reading about the parenting of kids similar in age to mine too! And yes, luckily you liked the books :D

Something else I mentioned in the lecture is the importance of readers and commenters! Regular commenters like you make a blog feel like a fun, lively place to hang out for the author as well as other readers, and I would appreciate you for that even if you never bought a book of mine!

(heh though let's face it, the balance has been more than made by the number of books I've made you buy that other people have written)

[jo1967]

I know...you have forced me to buy books AND enjoy them! But it's a sacrifice I'm prepared to make!

[callistra]

:-)
This was a great post