Okay, so I'm a little late with this (it started in August!) but it's not over yet. The six-month long competition sponsored by Sulekha and Penguin ends January 31st. And for those of you wondering why I'm passing the info on, the end result of the contest will be a blook :-)
Here's the announcement:
"Sulekha.com takes great pride in announcing "BLOGPRINT" in association with Penguin Books. Over the next 6 months, 25 selected posts from our bloggers will be published in a Penguin book! You have the opportunity to go down in history as one of the best bloggers on Sulekha.com. This comes on the back of our two previous successful publications in 'India Smiles' and 'Sulekha Select'.
"The contest runs from the 1st of August, 2007 to the 31st of January, 2008. Two posts will be selected every week for the contest by the Team Sulekha.com. Of the 52 posts selected (2 posts per week for 26 weeks), a panel of eminent judges from the literary field will shortlist 25 select pieces of writing which will appear in the book."
What sort of posts are they looking for?
"The parameters which will be used to select a post and shortlist it to 52 will be on the basis of both quantitative and qualitative measures. Quantitative will include parameters such as the number of page views, comments and recommendations your blog post gets while qualitative will be on various factors including grammatical correctness, style of writing and flourish."
These are really the same sorts of things that publishers are looking at when they go searching for blookable blogs! Not that I haven't mentioned that many times before :-)
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