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March 2006

Date clarification

It has come to our attention that one of our press releases incorrectly stated that the winners of the 2006 Lulu Blooker Prize will be announced on April 6. The actual date, as posted on the on the official Blooker site, and correctly reported in the BBC and elsewhere, is Monday, April 3, 2006.

The incorrect date was picked up by Reuters and subsequently reported in a number of articles worldwide. We apologize for this unfortunate mistake and any confusion it has caused.

March 20, 2006 in Press coverage | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Sound + Vision

Russel Davies has posted an mp3 of his recent interview with BBC Radio 5 in his eggbaconchipsandbeans blog. (I particularly like his description of brown sauce -- "the British Empire in a bottle.") In the same entry, he also has some very interesting things to say about the relationship of blogs and books.

In other news, The Blooker gets vlogged! (Courtesy of MobuzzTV)

Sorry, I just had to say it...

March 15, 2006 in Blooker News | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

blook buzz

The announcement last week of the Lulu Blooker Prize short-list produced a flood of press coverage all over the world both in traditional print media and online. Stories on the short-list have been featured in The Daily Telegraph, The Times of London, The BBC (not only once, but twice), The CBC, and US News and World Report .  Getting picked up by Reuters doesn't hurt either!

The UK press, perhaps not surprisingly, has focused its attention on British entrants Russell Davies and Belle de Jour. Of course, they're not the only Blooker finalists getting attention. Kevin Cornell has been interviewed by the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Tornotoist loves Ryan North!

We know there are other exciting stories in the works, and we'll post about them here when they happen.

 

March 14, 2006 in Press coverage | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

The Short-List

Non-fiction (6 finalists)

All The President's Spin: George W. Bush, the Media, and the Truth by Bryan Keefer, Ben Fritz, and Brendan Nyhan

  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster (paperback, $14.00)
  • Source blog/site: Spinsanity - www.spinsanity.com

Belle de Jour: The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl by Anonymous

Biodiesel Power by Lyle Estill

  • Publisher: New Society Publishers (paperback, $16.95)
  • Source blog/site: Piedmont Biofuels Energy Blog - www.biofuels.coop/blog

Egg Bacon Chips and Beans: 50 Great Cafes and the Stuff That Makes Them Great by Russell Davies

Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen by Julie Powell

Stone Cold Guilty - The People v. Scott Lee Peterson by Loretta Dillon

  • Publisher: self-published through Lulu (paperback, $16.50)
  • Source blog/site: Observations of a Misfit - www.misfitting.com

Fiction (5 finalists)

Action Poetry: Literary Tribes for the Internet Age edited by Levi Asher, Jamelah Earle, and Caryn Thurman

  • Publisher: Authorhouse (paperback, $17.50)
  • Source blog/site: Literary Kicks - www.litkicks.com

Africa Fresh! New Voices from the First Continent - edited by Rod Amis

  • Publisher: self-published through Lulu (paperback, $15.00)
  • Source blog/site: G21: The World's Magazine - www.g21.net

Four and Twenty Blackbirds by Cherie Priest

Gus Openshaw's Whale-Killing Journal by Keith Thomson

hackoff.com: an historic murder mystery set in the Internet bubble and rubble by Tom Evslin

  • Publisher: dotHill Press (hardback, $24.95)
  • Source blog/site: hackoff.com - www.hackoff.com

Comics (5 finalists)

Ambidextrous: Collection 1 by Kevin Cornell

  • Publisher: self-published through Lulu (paperback, $11.99)
  • Source blog/site: Bearskinrug - www.bearskinrug.co.uk

Comic Strip Volume 1: Scarybear and Friends by Jason Pultz

  • Publisher: self-published (paperback, $15.00)
  • Source blog/site: Comic Strip - www.scarybear.org

Dinosaur Comics: Huge Eyes, Beaks, Intelligence, and Ambition by Ryan North

  • Publisher: self-published through CatPrint (paperback, $8.00)
  • Source blog/site: Dinosaur Comics - www.qwantz.com

The Dada Alphabet: An Absurdist's Illustrated Primer by Stephanie Freese, David Milloway, and Matthew Wood

  • Publisher: self-published through Lulu (paperback, $15.00)
  • Source blog/site: The Dada Detective - www.likelystories.com


Totally Boned: A Joe and Monkey Collection by Zach Miller

  • Publisher: self-published through Lulu (paperback, $14.95)
  • Source blog/site: Joe and Monkey - www.joeandmonkey.com

March 03, 2006 in Blooker News | | Comments (5) | TrackBack (6)