We're back for 2007, and there are only 11 days left to enter the Lulu Blooker Prize! Remember, entries must be POSTMARKED no later than Monday, January 15. For anyone who has already entered, and would like to advertise it on their own website, we've created this official web badge:
This image could even be used as a button to link back to www.lulublookerprize.com.
For today's spotlighted entries, we have six non-fiction books which represent many of the key genres of the blogosphere--such as mommy blogs, soldier blogs, and photoblogs.
The Blog of War: Front-line Dispatches from Soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan
by Matthew Currier Burden - www.blackfive.net
$15.00 (Simon & Schuster) Buy it
Blooker category: Non-Fiction
"In The Blog of War Burden presents selections from some of the best of the military blogs, the purest account of the many voices of this war. this is the first real-time history of the war, a history written even as the war continues. It offers a glimpse into the full range of military experiences in Afghanistan and Iraq, from the decision to enlist right through to homecoming. There are powerful stories of soldiers in combat, touching reflections on helping local victims of terror and war, pulse-racing accounts of medevac units and hospitals, and heartbreaking chronicles of spouses who must cope when a loved one has paid the ultimate price."
Vegan Lunch Box
by Jennifer McCann - www.veganlunchbox.com
$22.95 (Little "S" Press) Buy it
Blooker category - Non-Fiction
"If you think vegan lunchtime means peanut butter and jelly day after day, think again! From the simple to the sublimely gourmet, Vegan Lunch Box brings you an amazing array of entirely meat-free, egg-free, and dairy-free launches that will transform how you look at lunchtime forever!"
Mommy Confidential: Adventures from the Wonderbelly of Motherhood
by Melinda Roberts - www.themommyblog.net
$19.95 (Aventine Press/Lulu) Buy it
Blooker category: Non-Fiction
"Mommy Confidential is a naked, brutally funny, endearingly honest chronicle of family life beset by disaster on many fronts. Mindy keeps her family together through catastrophic illness, four bouts of postpartum depression, financial peril, familial Waterloo, and job instability. All through it her sense of humor and her sharp, edgy, witty writing keeps her together and upright. No, really."
Blood, Sweat & Tea: Real-life Adventures in an Inner-city Ambulance
by Tom Reynolds - randomreality.blogware.com
£7.99 (The Friday Project) Buy it
Blooker category: Non-Fiction
"Have you ever wondered what's going on inside the ambulance you see screaming past with its sirens on and blue lights flashing? Meet Tom Reynolds. Tom is an Emergency medical Technician who works for the London Ambulance Service in East London. He has kept a diary of his daily working life since 2003, first as a website called "Random Acts of Reality" and now for the first time as a no-punches-pulled book. His award-winning writing is, by turn, moving, cynical, funny, heart-rending and compassionate...the stories Tom tells give a fascinating--and at times alarming--picture of life in inner-city Britain, and the people who are paid to mop up after it."
Tana's Habitat: The Ultimate Guide to Finding, Affording, and Styling Your First Place
by Tana March - www.tanashabitat.com
$18.95 (Perigee) Buy it
Blooker category: Non-Fiction
"From living in a storage unit to creating art out of the everyday, Tana's been through it all, and knows how to turn trash into treasure. Now she's bringing her special brand of design savvy to you. Her popular website is a hit with people who crave her creative, environmentally friendly, do-it-yourself projects and real-world philosophies."
Fotolog.book: A Global Snapshot for the Digital Age
edited by Andrew Long, texts by Nick Currie - www.fotolog.com
$34.95 (Thames & Hudson) Buy it
Blooker category: Non-Fiction
"With digital cameras and camera phones, millions of people are obsessively documenting their daily lives. The fotolog™ phenomenon transcends national borders, language barriers, and age gaps. From hotblooded (and sometimes hot-headed) teenagers in Brazil to cool silver surfers in Iceland, doctors, lawyers, dentists, mothers-to-be, and great-grandfathers, all these people have one thing in common: they communicate with images.
Organized into themes with quotes and commentaries, this book guides us to the best of the millions of images and multitudes of words found in the fotolog™ archives.
fotolog™.book shows us how we see our world, rather than images that newspapers deem newsworthy, images that marketers hope will be money-making or galleries judge to be Art with a capital A. It shows us what the fresh eyes of hundreds of ordinary men and women find beautiful, funny, moving, or extraordinary. Over 1000 color illustrations."
How can I get a book postmarked the 15th, when the 15th is Martin Luther King Day and the Post Office is CLOSED? Arrgh! I just got my book delivered from Lulu! I can do postage online, will that count?
Posted by: Marti | January 14, 2007 at 02:55 PM
Hi Marti,
You are absolutely correct, and we are quite embarrassed to have overlooked this issue when we set the schedule for this year's Blooker. So, to answer your question, we are extending the deadline to accept entries shipped on the 16th. We apologize for this oversight.
Posted by: Jason | January 15, 2007 at 03:14 PM