Non-fiction (6 finalists)
All The President's Spin: George W. Bush, the Media, and the Truth by Bryan Keefer, Ben Fritz, and Brendan Nyhan
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster (paperback, $14.00)
- Source blog/site: Spinsanity - www.spinsanity.com
Belle de Jour: The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl by Anonymous
- Publisher: Phoenix (paperback, £7.99)
- Source blog/site: Belle de Jour - http://belledejour-uk.blogspot.com
Biodiesel Power by Lyle Estill
- Publisher: New Society Publishers (paperback, $16.95)
- Source blog/site: Piedmont Biofuels Energy Blog - www.biofuels.coop/blog
Egg Bacon Chips and Beans: 50 Great Cafes and the Stuff That Makes Them Great by Russell Davies
- Publisher: HarperCollins Entertainment (hardback, £9.99)
- Source blog/site: eggbaconchipsandbeans - www.eggbaconchipsandbeans.com
Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen by Julie Powell
- Publisher: Little, Brown (hardback, $23.95)
- Source blog/site: The Julie/Julia project - http://blogs.salon.com/0001399
Stone Cold Guilty - The People v. Scott Lee Peterson by Loretta Dillon
- Publisher: self-published through Lulu (paperback, $16.50)
- Source blog/site: Observations of a Misfit - www.misfitting.com
Fiction (5 finalists)
Action Poetry: Literary Tribes for the Internet Age edited by Levi Asher, Jamelah Earle, and Caryn Thurman
- Publisher: Authorhouse (paperback, $17.50)
- Source blog/site: Literary Kicks - www.litkicks.com
Africa Fresh! New Voices from the First Continent - edited by Rod Amis
- Publisher: self-published through Lulu (paperback, $15.00)
- Source blog/site: G21: The World's Magazine - www.g21.net
Four and Twenty Blackbirds by Cherie Priest
- Publisher: Tor (paperback, $13.95)
- Source blog/site: Heretic Spire, a Damn Lie - http://wicked-wish.livejournal.com
Gus Openshaw's Whale-Killing Journal by Keith Thomson
- Publisher: MacAdam/Cage (hardback, $23.00)
- Source blog/site: Gus Openshaw's Whale-Killing Journal - http://blubberybastard.tripod.com/blog
hackoff.com: an historic murder mystery set in the Internet bubble and rubble by Tom Evslin
- Publisher: dotHill Press (hardback, $24.95)
- Source blog/site: hackoff.com - www.hackoff.com
Comics (5 finalists)
Ambidextrous: Collection 1 by Kevin Cornell
- Publisher: self-published through Lulu (paperback, $11.99)
- Source blog/site: Bearskinrug - www.bearskinrug.co.uk
Comic Strip Volume 1: Scarybear and Friends by Jason Pultz
- Publisher: self-published (paperback, $15.00)
- Source blog/site: Comic Strip - www.scarybear.org
Dinosaur Comics: Huge Eyes, Beaks, Intelligence, and Ambition by Ryan North
- Publisher: self-published through CatPrint (paperback, $8.00)
- Source blog/site: Dinosaur Comics - www.qwantz.com
The Dada Alphabet: An Absurdist's Illustrated Primer by Stephanie Freese, David Milloway, and Matthew Wood
- Publisher: self-published through Lulu (paperback, $15.00)
- Source blog/site: The Dada Detective - www.likelystories.com
Totally Boned: A Joe and Monkey Collection by Zach Miller
- Publisher: self-published through Lulu (paperback, $14.95)
- Source blog/site: Joe and Monkey - www.joeandmonkey.com
"Writing is like crime. The page is about what you can get away with. We break and enter, transgress, autopsy the living and dead, rob, exchange identities, lie, confess, steal. The arts of writing and successful crime are the same. Opportunity. Robbery. Seizure. Con. Misdirection. Theft. Fiction is a form of fraud, the most elegant, exquisite and complicated forms of creative fraud."
-Kate Braverman
As bloggers ays. our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure...
CODA: What is it about blogging that causes so many of the people who do it to believe they've been anointed to an online College of Cardinals, with their own personal stone tablet engraved with The 10 - or possibly 20 - Commandments of Blogging?
You're not really a blooker if:
http://www.bleedingedge.com.au/blog/archives/2006/02/youre_not_reall.html
Posted by: Jozef Imrich | March 12, 2006 at 12:46 AM
I demand a recount! :(
Posted by: shawn | March 13, 2006 at 10:46 AM
LULU, I LOVE THAT YOU HAVE DONE THIS COMPETITION....DO KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK.
For the next competition please start a poetry CATEGORY. POETRY IS ON FIRE, AND IT IS ONLY GETTING HOTTER. YOU WON'T BE SORRY IF YOU START A POETRY BOOK CATEGORY. THERE ARE THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF POETS OUT THERE TRYING TO GET THEIR CD'S, DVD'S AND BOOKS PUBLISH. THIS WOULD BE EVEN MORE REVOLUTIONARY, CONSIDERING THAT YOU WOULD BRING MORE ATTENTION TO POETRY. THANK YOU LULU...I LOVE YOU SITE!
Posted by: da poetry diva | March 26, 2006 at 01:43 PM
The blooker prize is a welcome innovation. I like lulu.com for blazing the trail. Sustenance will ignite a fresh wave of blogging on the internet!
Posted by: Clarius Ugwuoha | April 01, 2006 at 12:36 AM
great article look forward to more like it
Posted by: bob gardner | March 13, 2007 at 11:28 AM