blogging ennui

I’m currently experiencing one of those semi-annual bouts of blogging ennui. Tonight I was in yoga class and as my mind wandered during Shivasana (as it tends to) I had all these great ideas about blogging topics, but now that I’m here, before the keyboard, none are appealing to me.

I’m also really behind on reading blogs. I heard Cory Doctorow got yelled at by his blog readers for daring to post something about himself. I feel like I’m in good company now. My favorite comment was one that said, “Up next: livejournal author criticized for using self-portrait as userpic.” As I have been criticized for putting pictures of myself on my blog (????) I found that especially funny.

I was also amused by this post on Bookends. It never ceases to amaze me that people can be savvy enough about this industry to read agent blogs, but are still missing a fundamental point. But then again, I was at a conference a few years ago and sitting at a table where the topic of “no agent is better than a bad agent” came up, and one of the people who was most enthusiastically agreeing with that point had a terrible agent who was driving her career into the ground, had been told as much by all of her friends, and still wouldn’t leave, fearing what would happen if she couldn’t find representation elsewhere. But back to the Bookends post. The questioner thinks disservice is better than no service” when it comes to agenting. Were I still a waitress, I’d try out that argument the next time I spilled a martini in someone’s lap. Think it would get me very far?

And finally, some really fantastic news! C.L. Wilson’s second novel, The Lady of Light and Shadows, has debuted at #88 on the USA Today bestseller list! Congratulations, C.L.!