Rob at Snowbooks has been kind enough to write good things about ebcb but his review hints at one of the problems I think the book faced, and I pass it on as a potential aid for future writers of bits of amusing fluff. No-one knew where to put, or find, the thing. It's officially classified as 'humour' (which personally I always find is a bit of a kiss of death when tearing open the Christmas presents, I'll read that one last) but of course the name suggests you might find it in 'food', or maybe if you knew it's guide-booky nature maybe 'travel'. I'm not sure there was a lot we could do about that, but it's worth thinking about if you're planning on writing a book. Where in the shop will it go? Somewhere obvious, or all over the place?
The good thing is, I don't think that matters in the long tail, it just means there are more places to play.
that's the lovely thing about blogs, don't you think, you don't HAVE to categorise them to write them. and maybe that's why EBCB started as a blog and not as a book?
Posted by: lauren | November 14, 2007 at 11:28 AM