Canadian webpages to print pages

September 28, 2009 11:35 AM

Can you name any published Canadian bloggers?

I saw this question already, but time has moved on and I'm specifically wondering about Canadian bloggers (or internet self-publishers if they can't be called bloggers for some reason) who have moved into print.

Also, if anyone knows of any Canadian publishers who have put out a notable amount of internet-affiliated works, I'd be interested in hearing about them too.

posted by ashputtel to media & arts (34 comments total)

Cory Doctorow of Boingboing is Canadian, is he not? Has written a couple of books, incl. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom...
posted by momentofmagnus at 11:40 AM on September 28

Does Cory Doctorow of BoingBoing count, although he lives in London, UK now?
posted by dirm at 11:41 AM on September 28

Ezra Levant? He used to publish the "Western Standard", so I guess he's published. But I think both the magazine and blog grow from the sxame root (Levant) as opposed to him going from blogger to published author.
posted by GuyZero at 11:44 AM on September 28

Canadian knitting blogger Stephanie Pearl-McPhee has published a bunch of books.
posted by craichead at 11:46 AM on September 28 [1 favorite has favorites]

Jim Munroe.

And that MeFite who was against Canadian Health Care in a thread not so long ago--she apparently lives in Hamilton. Sorry, I forget her name. She has a blog about faeries or elves or something.
posted by You Should See the Other Guy at 11:48 AM on September 28

Here's her site. (And no, I have no idea what the point of it is.)
posted by You Should See the Other Guy at 11:50 AM on September 28

Also, along the lines of Levant, you'll find that lots of Canadian journos maintain full-blown blogs separate from their published work. Matthew Ingram, Antonia Zerbisias, etc.
posted by GuyZero at 11:53 AM on September 28

Oh, and Ninjalicious.
posted by You Should See the Other Guy at 11:53 AM on September 28

Wait. Have I misunderstood the question? Are you looking for Canadian bloggers who've had a book published or Canadian bloggers who've had their blog published as a book? Or both?
posted by You Should See the Other Guy at 11:54 AM on September 28

Are you looking for Canadian bloggers who've had a book published or Canadian bloggers who've had their blog published as a book? Or both?

Both.

I mainly want to know about people who were known from their web-presence before being published in the "traditional" ways, but I do realize that it is 2009 and that trying to make that sort of distinction is a little odd and difficult.
posted by ashputtel at 12:01 PM on September 28

Joe Clark has written a few books.
posted by nostrich at 12:09 PM on September 28

Bob Tarantino: author, blogger.
posted by ewiar at 12:21 PM on September 28

Michael Geist got a lot more well known after moving online.
posted by blue_beetle at 12:21 PM on September 28

Dave Shea (mezzoblue) from Vancouver writes about design and the web. His book The Zen of CSS Design was published after he became well-known through his blog and web site.
posted by mbrubeck at 12:28 PM on September 28

Kate Beaton is a(n awesome) comics artist from Nova Scotia whose comics were first published online.
posted by homelystar at 12:30 PM on September 28

The guy who does Stuff White People Like, the book and the blog, is a Torontonia. Not sure if he's actually Canada-based though.
posted by jamesonandwater at 12:45 PM on September 28

Jeff Wells.
posted by monospace at 12:54 PM on September 28

Joe Clark
posted by 5_13_23_42_69_666 at 1:01 PM on September 28

Because he's far too classy to blow his own horn on this, my friend/ex-roommate Darren Barefoot is a pretty well-known social media blogger whose first book, "Friends with Benefits," comes out in November.

Oh, and his blog is here.
posted by liquado at 1:13 PM on September 28

William Shatner?
posted by Jim T at 1:19 PM on September 28

I think Carl Wilson is equally known for his blog Zoilus and his book about Celine Dion.
posted by neroli at 1:27 PM on September 28

Franke James.
posted by padraigin at 1:38 PM on September 28

Tara Ariano was one of the founders of Television Without Pity, and, as 'Wing Chun', wrote several blogs. She was well-known online before she published a satiric novel and a couple of blog compilations. She is from Regina originally and then Toronto and now lives in New York, I think.
posted by aabbbiee at 1:52 PM on September 28

Dave Pollard.
posted by sagwalla at 2:45 PM on September 28

Heather Mallick used to write for the Globe and also has a book (possibly two) published. She blogs at CBC.ca.
posted by Pomo at 3:04 PM on September 28

Sam Javanrouh of Daily Dose of Imagery (books)
Keri Smith of wish jar journal (books)
Ryan North of Dinosaur Comics (book)
Joey Comeau of A Softer World (book, with Emily Horne) and other books
posted by oulipian at 4:04 PM on September 28

Kate Beaton of Hark, a vagrant (book)
(because homelystar's link doesn't work)
posted by oulipian at 4:08 PM on September 28

Also, you might be interested in the Coach House Books Online Editions project, and the Canadian Literature Centre's list of Canadian writers' blogs.
posted by oulipian at 4:16 PM on September 28

Some biggies are missing:

Mitch Joel (Six Pixels of Separation blog and now book). Also seen in En route magazine and several Canwest newspapers weekly.

Tara Hunt is Canadian though she was based in SF for a while. Book: The Whuffie Factor; blog: HorsePigCow.

Julien Smith is one of two authors of Trust Agents (blog = In over your head)

Also one of the most direct examples of this is Craig Silverman, whose blog Regret the error was expanded into a very good book.
posted by mikel at 4:47 PM on September 28

Pierre-Léon Lalonde of Un taxi la nuit has gone on to have two books published by Septentrion. Caroline Allard of Le chroniques d'une mère indigne has also had a book published.
posted by zadcat at 10:56 PM on September 28

Mark Steyn
posted by quidividi at 12:36 AM on September 29

Well that's embarrassing - I neglected to put Caroline in my answer though she is my business partner and we work together every day.

One other from the francophone side of things is Stanley Péan, who has written many novels and collections of stories and is also an excellent blogger.
posted by mikel at 4:23 AM on September 29

James Maskalyk on his MSF mission
posted by madokachan at 9:43 AM on September 29

These are all great answers. Thanks, everyone.
posted by ashputtel at 10:54 AM on September 30