Blog Blackman
Zoe Margolis - the Girl with a One Track Mind – is probably the most famous blogger-cum-author. Except that she tried to it all anonymously. In publishing the author is the brand but by calling herself Girl with a One Track Mind she gave herself an instant identity. Belle du Jour did a similar thing. Perhaps they rode on then reputation of established by the earlier works of Anonymous. Girl with a One Track Mind was said to be revolutionary and her expression of female sexuality was subsequently published. By Virgin. Actually it wasn’t, it was Ebury. This doesn’t sound all that revolutionary to me but there was a feeding frenzy among literary agents earlier in the noughties and when Margolis was “outed” by the tabloids the publicity did wonders for sales at the expense of her privacy. Belle du Jour is still in cognito . Some say she doesn’t exist. Blogging allowed them to express themselves but they started when blogging was new. Nowadays it’s much harder to mak...