My favourite bloggers

I'm a big fan of the classics, I did my dissertation on Dickens, read Thomas Hardy for fun and Scott Fitzgerald is my favourite author of all time.

There are two bloggers turned authors though that have really opened by eyes to the literary world..

The first is Zoe Margolis, known as 'Girl With A One Track Mind'.'  Zoe has written two biographies, 'A Girl With A One Track Mind' and 'A Girl With A One Track Mind Exposed' under the guise of Abby Lee.  She remained anonymous in order to write honestly and without limit and she "decided to write about sex in my blog because I felt that the feminist and female-centred perspective is missing from mainstream media."  However, soon after her book was published, the Sunday Times published an article in August 2006 which revealed the identity of the author as Zoe Margolis, an assistant director in the film industry.  Nowadays she spends her time mostly writing and speaking about blogging, technology, feminism and sex.

The second is Dr Brooke Magnanti, aka 'Belle Du Jour.'  You may have heard of her due to the hit TV series 'Belle Du Jour' starring Billie Piper.  Maganati, like Margolis was an anonymous blogger writing about sex.  Magnati however was a call girl and her writing chronicled her experiences as such.  Similarly to Margolis, Magnanti was outed due to media pressure, and in November 2009, reportedly fearing her real identity was about to come out, she revealed her real name to and occupation as a child health scientist to the Sunday Times.   Magnanti is currently writing a novel which is out next year.

So, can you see any commonalities between these two writers?  They are both bloggers, they enjoy writing about sex and love and they are candid (pornographic at times) with their subject matter.  I respect their honesty, humour and dedication to writing through heartbreak, death and media scrutiny.  Please check the blogs out, especially their early writing. 

If I achieve a tenth of what they have I'll be over the moon.