Saturday morning's idle question

[rolanni]

If you're reader of this blog (by which I mean either Eagles Over the Kennebec, on LJ, or The Blog Without a Name, at sharonleewriter.com), you obviously read at least one author's blog.

My question to you today is:  Why?

Why do you read writer's blogs?

. . .and, Special Bonus Question:

Of the author blogs that you do read, which is your favorite -- and why?

Have at it.

Comments

[jessie-c.livejournal.com]

When I was growing up authors were magical beings who got their names on books! I formed the notion that they were somehow superior beings to we poor mortals who only ever got to read what they gave us.

Then when blogs came around all of a sudden authors were people whose basements flooded and whose cats needed to be taken to the Vet and who had to pay bills and deal with all the other plagues and concerns of ordinary humanity but who still arranged words in interesting ways. And then there are the intriguing revealed details of the mechanics of being an author; dealing with publishers, correcting galleys (I still have the ludicrous image of the author pounding on drums while rows of editors slave away on reams and reams of paper because that's what occurs in my mind when I see the word 'galley') and all the other hitherto mysterious steps between the time the book is written and the time I get to pay the bookseller for it.