Prelude to a ScienceOnline panel: Using Blogs to Promote Your Book

If there is any problem with my upcoming panel discussion with Tom Levenson and Rebecca Skloot tomorrow morning it is that there is too much to talk about! There is no way to get to it all. In the spirit of the conference, then, we are going to let the questions of our audience guide the discussion rather than lecture our listeners about our experiences, but I did want to briefly comment an issue Tom brought up on his blog earlier today.Tom wrote;

[O]ne piece of advice I do have for writers planning to start blogs specifically to aid their upcoming book projects — don’t. At least don’t imagine that blog created simply to promote a specific

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