All Together Now: How Group Blogs are Changing the Writing Scene

One of my great realizations from last weekend’s Kidlitosphere 2008 conference was that the future belongs to those who band together. There’s simply too much clutter and background noise for individual authors to make a big splash on their own. We need to collaborate.

Enter the group blog.

Writers, illustrators, agents, booksellers, librarians, readers — anyone with an interest in children’s literature — are working together to present multi-author blogs that are gathering plenty of attention. These blogs work because they multiply the promotional power of having multiple authors, reduce the workload for each author and do better at attracting readers who are seeking a “big picture” approach about a particular topic.

You can group together with other bloggers to develop a group blog based around genre of books you write, where you live, where you went to school, common subject matter – or just about anything else.

Here are a few of the top group blogs in kidslit to get your creative juices flowing:

PS: Wanna collaborate on a group blog? We’re all ears. Drop us an e-mail at mail@write4kids.com