Blogging Leads to HOMER’S ODYSSEY
Launching today is Homer’s Odyssey, a book about a remarkable blind cat, written by her human companion, Gwen Cooper.
Homer’s Odyssey got its start on Open Salon, a “social content site” created by Salon. Users create the content, which is rated and commented on by other users.
Through her agent, Gwen Cooper had been shopping a book about her cat Homer to publishers, but there were no takers.
So, she put a sample chapter on Open Salon. The author says in her post today, “it went viral with a speed and scope that even those of us who believed in Homer’s Odyssey were unprepared for.”
Publishers took a second look, she got a book deal and, ten months later, the book is a reality.
To read the post that started it all, go to “Night of the Hunter.”
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