Well, Wordsy didn't make the finalist for online community, but everyone still has a chance to vote in the lit category:
* Pepys' Diary
* Avon Romance Blog
* Maud Newton
* Classical Bookworm
* Writer's Block
* Erik Hare
* Diary of a Heretic
* Bookgasm (Wooo! This was my nomination!)
* Neil Gaiman's journal
* McSweeney's
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It's cool there's a lit category. I'm going to interview some of the nominees for the podcast.
Neil Gaiman is one of my absolute favorite writers... Hans: get him!!!
That'd be quite the coup.
Rat's Reading - http://reading.kingrat.biz/
Here's hoping. I thought I'd increase my chances going the funny route. Who knows.
Dear mr.Gaiman's Publisher
In honour of the 2007 best literature blog award, for which mr. Gaiman is a contender - and comfortably in the lead I might add - I'm trying to interview all the nominated bloggers for my podcast on http://www.wordsy.com/podcast.
I've secured 4 interviews so far but, to be perfectly honest, a few have also declined, sometimes even stating understandable reasons.
Now I'm fully aware that mr. Gaiman is probably too busy to be interviewed by some VUP on a "podcast, whatever that is" - but you see it would mean the world to our little online books and reading community. And that's why I have to try. So what do I need to do to make it happen?
Thank you for your time.
Please send your initial rejection to:
hans.dekker@gmail.com
Link to the nominations (mr. Gaiman is comfortably leading the race).
http://2007.weblogawards.org/polls/best-literature-blog-1.php
Link to our community:
http://www.wordsy.com