Buy The Book - Shaggy Blog Stories
Today is Red Nose Day and if you want to do some good and spread some cheer, then you could do worse than buying a copy of Shaggy Blog Stories, which is out today.
Here is the full list of contributors. I’m really pleased to be writer number 26, especially when you think of that actually funny and genuinely smart people took part. Incredible work by Mike Troubled Diva for getting it off the ground.
Click here to buy the book, which costs £8.96, of which £4.64 (i.e. 51.8% of the cover price) will go to Comic Relief once external manufacturing costs have been deducted. That’s $16.26 of your Earth dollars, folks.
So dig deep and have a great weekend.
Here’s the press release, written by Scaryduck.
100 bloggers have published a book to raise funds of the BBC’s Comic Relief appeal on Friday 16th March.
‘Shaggy Blog Stories’ features hilarious contributions from Richard Herring of ‘Fist of Fun’ fame, BBC 6Music presenter Andrew Collins, comedian Emma Kennedy, and James Henry, scriptwriter from Channel Four’s ‘The Green Wing’.
Authors Abby Lee, David Belbin, Catherine Sanderson and The Guardian’s Anna Pickard have also contributed pieces to the book.
The vast majority of contributions, however, are the work of many of the lesser known and unfamiliar heroes of British blogging; going under pen names such as Diamond Geezer, Scaryduck, Pandemian and Unreliable Witness.
The book is the idea of blogger Mike Atkinson who writes the ‘Troubled Diva’ weblog. ‘Shaggy Blog Stories’ features comic writing from not only the cream of British blogging, but also the best up-and-coming and undiscovered writers publishing their work on their own websites.
Giving himself a “ridiculously short” seven days from idea to finished product, Atkinson admitted that he was overwhelmed with the response, which gleaned over 300 submissions for publication.
With a pool of talented writers, and the latest publishing-on-demand technology, Shaggy Blog Stories bypasses the usual snail-paced publishing industry, and offers a mail order service to customers who will receive their finished copy within days of placing their order, and only a couple of weeks after the original idea.
“Blogging creates complex, worldwide networks of friendship and contacts on the internet”, says journalist Alistair Coleman, one of Shaggy Blog Stories’ contributors. “By creating a buzz about this book, we can reach out to hundreds, thousands of readers who’d be willing to part with a few quid for this very good cause. Mike’s got some excellent writers on board here whose work deserves a wider audience. Everybody wins.”
For details of how to order the book, visit http://www.shaggyblogstories.co.uk
It’ll redirect you to the order page of Lulu.com, which is the publisher, but it’s all legitimate.
March 16th, 2007 at 2:44 pm
YOu wearing your red nose?
March 16th, 2007 at 6:24 pm
It’s a fab idea. Well done all involved. Purchasing as I type.
March 16th, 2007 at 10:02 pm
Clicked on link … www.shaggyblogstories…. changed to “www.lulu.com….” (which I’m still pondering) … and then blank page.
I haven’t bought one even though I think I might like to …
March 16th, 2007 at 10:15 pm
Hey Mike! Yeah, that’s fine. Lulu’s the publisher. The site has been crashing a little tonight, which is good sign because there seems to be a lot of interest. Lulu is a trustwothy site, so please go ahead and buy it if you like laughing.
Good to hear from you.
March 16th, 2007 at 10:39 pm
Thanks FB - and Ed - I have been !