We blog; so do they.

Cory Doctorow - Boing Boing: More famous for being an author on Boing Boing than an author of novels, but he did recently publish Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, which was plugged by Jeff Bezos on NPR. Not surprisingly, Doctorow set up a blog to promote his book.

Neil Gaiman - Journal: Not only does Gaiman journal about his life and travels, he answers fan mail. I almost want to start writing to him just to see if I can get mentioned because that would be pretty cool, but I?m not an authorfucker (or a starfucker for that matter). Neverwhere had me so enthralled I couldn?t put it down, but I had no problem putting down and then quickly giving away my copy of American Gods.

William Gibson - Blog: I find it funny that the author of Neuromancer and Pattern Recognition recently posted about problems with Blogger just like the rest of its users did. But instead of the usual "Blogger sucks" and "fucking Blogger" rant, Gibson made it sound so much more profound: "Feels remarkably like being locked out of your own apartment, except that there are lots of people in there, having conversations."

Scott Heim - Weblog: Mysterious Skin made us all feel oogy when we discussed it in February, but he left us a nice comment anyway and thanked us for reading his book. In clicking around his new site, I noticed that it includes a timeline of high and low points of his life to date. One event seems to be missing: 02.17.03 BookBlog begins discussing Mysterious Skin. Realizes he has finally made it to the big time.

Michael Lowenthal - Weblog: "I can?t (won?t) be one of those folks who writes every day, or even every week. If I did, I?d never write the "real" stuff (i.e., novels and stories) that (sort of) gives me the self-inflated sense of my importance that (sort of) allows me to have a Web site in my name and to type these occasional notes with a straight (sort of) face." If it?s such a burden, dump the blog. Simple. His most recent work is aptly named Avoidance.

John Passarella - Passarella Author Musings: Who is John Passarella? He?s on this list because I thought Sarah might be interested. He wrote a Buffy book.

Pamela Ribon - Pamie.com: This longtime blogger wrote Why Girls are Weird, the story of a twenty-something who learns html, invents an online persona, blogs about a made up life, and develops a following. Hmm. This scenario sounds oddly familiar.

William Shatner - Bill?s Space: Captain of the U.S.S. Enterprise. T.J. Hooker. Author. Blogger.

Duane Simolke - Duane Simolke?s Acorn Universes: Although Simolke is a self-published author, Degranon and The Acorn Stories can be purchased at Amazon. I also added him to the list because he mentioned BookBlog on his web site and sent an e-mail to let me know. I never responded to him, which happens often because every yahoo with a book wants us to read it, but he?s the only one who was nice enough to give us a link.

Bruce Sterling - Schism Matrix: Of all the sites listed, this one is most like a real weblog in that it seems to be a collection of regularly updated links rather than a journal. I didn?t check it out too thoroughly, though, because I became fixated on the PayPal donation link featured so prominently next to the entries. I?m sure Rich laid out some cash for more than just Schismatrix. Doesn?t Sterling earn royalties?

Jennifer Weiner - SnarkSpot: An upcoming BookBlog author who has been devoting most of her blog to posting about new motherhood. Don?t forget to pick up your copy of Good in Bed and read it in time for August?s discussion.

The list above only covers fiction because there are about a billion non-fiction authors, especially ones writing about computers and the Internet, with blogs. And I?m not as enamored by non-fiction as I am with fiction.

I?m sure I left out a bunch, but it?s really difficult to google for authors/writers because everyone with a web site is an author/writer. I was also surprised no one had already put together a list like the above that I could steal in order to avoid doing my own legwork. If you know of any others, leave it in the comments and maybe I?ll put together a page here to keep them all in one place.