My indie quibble with a lot of writer-bloggers is that they don't put their money where their keystrokes are. Blogging is fine, but they're after conventional publishing contracts for their 'real work' - their novels, for example.
I have published four novels and four books of literary criticism; I'm currently at work on a book called FOR THE LOVE OF BROKEN THINGS: MY FATHER, EDWARD GIBBON AND THE RUINS OF ROME. I teach in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
Here's a repost of what I wrote at Edrants:
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