hackoff.com Is Runner-Up for Lulu Blooker Award for Fiction
The Lulu Blooker Award is given for books which, like hackoff.com, have appeared on blogs. The first prize winner in the fiction category was Four and Twenty Blackbirds by Cherie Priest whose website is http://wicked.wish.livejournal.com.
The Blooker Award and the coverage it got on BBC, in The Guardian, and in USA Today are evidence of the growing popularity of both blogs and books which appear on them. But traditional books aren’t going away soon. People who like to hold a book in their hands have been buying hackoff.com from Amazon and 800ceoread. Even some people who read the online serialization here or listened to the podcasts are buying the hardcover as a gift.
I do think readers will expect to be able to sample books online before buying them. Amazon “Look Inside” does help but only after the hardcopy edition exists. From an author’s point of view, this blook edition was like a beta release of software. I got lots of good feedback that helped make the print edition better.And people have had fun with the collateral material online like the faux company website at http://www.hackoff.com/corp.