Literary Bloggers: The New Online Insiders

Jeff Gomez is the author of five books, including the recent non-fiction title Print is Dead: Books in Our Digital Age, which was published by Macmillan in November 2007. He is currently the Senior Director of Online Consumer Sales and Marketing for Penguin USA. Jeff has been involved in electronic books and the world of digital reading since the industry’s beginning in 1999, and he has also been a featured speaker and panelist at publishing industry events throughout America.

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Ron Hogan created Beatrice.com, one of the first literary websites, in 1995. A decade later, he began writing about the publishing industry for mediabistro.com’s GalleyCat blog. He is also the author of The Stewardess Is Flying the Plane, a visual tribute to ‘70s Hollywood that Publishers Weekly called “one of the year’s most fun” coffee table books.

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Mark Sarvas’s debut novel, HARRY, REVISED, will be published by Bloomsbury in May 2008. He is best known as the host of the popular and controversial literary weblog “The Elegant Variation” which has been covered by The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Guardian (A Top 10 Literary Blog), Forbes Magazine (Best of the Web), Los Angeles Magazine (A Top L.A. Blog), The Scotsman, Salon, the Christian Science Monitor, Slate, The Denver Post, The Village Voice, The New York Sun, NPR and numerous other fine publications. His book reviews and criticism have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Threepenny Review, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Truthdig, The Modern Word, Boldtype and the Los Angeles Review, and he is a member of the National Book Critics Circle.

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Kassia Krozser is the founder and primary voice for Booksquare.com, a website focused on dissecting the publishing industry with love and skepticism. She is also a founding partner at Medialoper.com—same love and skepticism applied to all entertainment media. Her work on both sites frequently focuses on how new technology impacts traditional media. She is a reviewer for PaperbackReader.net and a regular contributor to other publications.

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Maud Newton blogs about books, culture, politics, and whatever is running through her mind on any given day, at MaudNewton.com. She has written for The American Prospect, the New York Times Book Review, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, and Newsday. Her essays appear in various anthologies, including What We Do Now and When I was a Loser (out from Free Press in March 2007). She lives in Brooklyn and is working on a novel set in Miami, her hometown.

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