Running Blog Empire Leaves HuffingtonEnough Free Time to Judge Blog Contest

The Lulu Blooker Prize is back, and this year’s panel of judges weighing in on blogs that get turned into books includes Arianna Huffington, the editor of HuffingtonPost.com, along with Julie Powell, who won the first Blooker earlier this year for Julie & Julia. The prize money’s been jacked up to $10,000 this year, so if you’ve been meaning to turn your blog into a book, get cracking—the entry deadline is just six months away. By pure coincidence, Blookers are sponsored by Lulu.com—just about the only way someone who didn’t already have a book deal would be able to take a blog and turn it into a published product by January.

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