Like I said I will start posting an interview a week from the book I published called Blog Blazers (seen above). However I decided to first have an introductory post today to give you a list of the bloggers that were interviewed (in alphabetical order as they are presented in the book). As well I thought it would be good form to add a link back to the introduction on every post for people who join later on as way for them to quickly catch up. This way they can have a starting point.

First the details for anyone interested in purchasing the printed book, you can buy it on Amazon here as well as a digital copy from the website here. The main difference is that you can click on the links in the digital book where as the printed book you have to type them in. Other than that the printed book and digital books are identical. In any case, I will be publishing all the interviews here so you can also just read them here and click on the links here. The printed book is really more for people like myself who prefer printed books, or the digital book for people who want everything together in one nice file for their iPad, Nexus, Kindle, and so on. Also please note that you can also subscribe to receive emails of the interviews by entering your email in the form in the top right corner or entering your email in the form on this page.

That being said, the book was published about 5 years ago, back in 2008. So over time some things have changed, but the interview questions were intentionally selected to be as timeless as was possible and while making it interesting and offering the reader a lot of actionable items. I also tried to ask everyone the same interview questions so that the book would make it easy to study how different people succeeding at blogging. You want to know the secret to blogging success, there is NO ONE SECRET! Different bloggers succeeded in very different ways. The biggest hurdles to blogging success are number one starting and number two stopping. There is no one single way to succeed or a single secret recipe for success. Different bloggers have succeeding in different ways using different techniques.

Back to the book, and before I go ahead and list the bloggers interview, if anyone wants to peek ahead and read the individual blogger’s bios, you can read their bios here. Warning of shameless plug: Also if you’re interested, you can find the reviews about the book here.

Now, as I was about to say before, deciding who to include in the book was very very hard. I wanted to not only include successful bloggers, but also up and coming bloggers, bloggers that weren’t mainstream yet. I wanted to include bloggers for different subjects and niches. There seems to be more technology related blogs than other niches. I also tried to include bloggers that I believed would be around for some time, at least 5-10 years. When it comes to blogging, most people are notorious for only blogging a short time, from a few months to maybe a year, so I wanted to avoid bloggers that were going to be gone shortly.

So without further ado, here is the list of bloggers interviewed in alphabetical order:

• Aaron Wall of SEOBook
• Abdylas Tynyshov of AdesBlog.com
• Al Carlton of Coolest Gadgets
• Alex Papadimoulis of The Daily WTF
• Andy Brice of Successful Software
• Anita Campbell of Small Business Trends
• Asha Dornfest of Parent Hacks
• Ben Casnocha of The Startup of You
• Benjamin Yoskovitz of Instigator Blog
• Bob Walsh of 47 Hats
• Dan Lyons of The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs
• Dane Carlso of Business Opportunities Weblog
• David Armano of Logic + Emotion
• David Seah of DavidSeah.com
• Dekek Semmler of Derek Semmler
• Dharmesh Shah of On Startups
• Erik Sink of Eric.Weblog()
• Ian Landsman of Ian Landsman
• James and Alex Turnbull of Google Sightings
• JD Roth of Get Rich Slowly
• Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror
• Jeff Clavier of Jeff Clavier’s Software Only
• Jennette Fulda of Pasta Queen
• Jennifer Perry of 101 Reasons I Hate Being Fat
• Jessamyn West of Librarian.net
• Joel Cheesman of Cheezhead
• Jonathan Snook of Snook.ca
• Manolo Blahnik of Manolo’s Shoe Blog
• Neil Patel of Quick Sprout
• Pamela Slim of Escape from Cubicle Nation
• Patrick McKenzie of Kalzumeus
• Penelop Trunk of Brazen Careerist
• Ramit Sethi of I Will Teach You To Be Rich
• Rob Walling of Software by Rob
• Rohit Bhargava from Influential Marketing Blog
• Seth Godin of Seth’s Blog
• Stephane Grenier (me) of FollowSteph
• Steve Rubel of Micro Persuasion
• Trent Hamm of The Simple Dollar
• Yaro Starak of Entrepreneur’s Journey

As you can see the list of bloggers interviewed is quite large and substantial. At the time some were just starting out and have now reached new heights of success!

I’ll be posting an interview a week for almost a year, for 40 weeks in all! It will be called Blog Blazer Friday.

Thankfully the vast majority of the bloggers I invited to be interviewed in the book have lasted the test of time, at least in blogging time (5-10 years). Almost all of the blogs are still alive, all but just 2 blogs!! The ones without the links are the two that are no longer online. A few more do have their blogs online but aren’t actively posting anymore. But overall the vast majority are still very active bloggers and have only grown more since the book was published! Overall I have to admit I’m pretty happy with the results 5 years later.

There’s definitely a lot of good information and details in the interviews and I hope you enjoy reading as much as I enjoyed compiling them.

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