Blake Schwendiman's Blog and Blook

I received an email a few weeks ago from a new web site called Books on Shelves. Here is a part of that email:

Our brilliant idea was to enable unique voices to raise their profile, be
seen and heard, be bought and read, to come together on one site and so have
greater strength in unity

We gave ourselves the name Books On Shelves
We thought that sounded straight to the point and simple (just like us
really)

We appreciate the lasting value of books and we know that some may need
extra time to mature, just like good cheese. Sometimes books (and cheeses)
with enduring flavours, a unique after taste, wacky colours, bizarre names
etc. do not get fully appreciated immediately. They need time to loiter on
shelves, time to be talked about, time to come into their own. Some will
never be flavour of the month…..but we still believe that they deserve some
shelf space. And the book buying public also deserve a diverse range to
choose from. We also know how frustrating it is for writers to survive when
their work does not fit within the mainstream. We believe it is tragic to
waste this untapped treasure.

To this end we came up with the idea of becoming a gateway for writers,
independent publishers and readers by providing virtual, limitless shelves
for real books - good reads beyond the normal bookshelf fare.

They asked me if I wanted to list The Agency Delta on their site. Naturally I did. You can see my listing on this page. I think it's a great idea. I'm not in love with some aspects of their design (which I told them), but overall I think they're doing something interesting on the Internet.