Blog Stats: What Being Newly-Kinda-SF-Internet-Only-Famous Looks Like

You know whenyou’re sitting there listening to a song, and it hits the rock-out chorus part, and suddenly you feel alive, you feel invincible, like anything is possible?

That’s what reading a great essay should be like. A story thatmoves you to action.

And that’s all blog posts are, really, the good ones: essays that inspire the hell out of you.

I get a lot of snark in convention spaces about how blogs don’t sell books, mostly from authors, and then I get publishers in the other ear saying, “You...