A lot of the readership here remembers that I took over the New Blog of the Week series from Barbara Swafford at Blogging Without A Blog.  If so, you may have noticed I haven’t done any of those posts in a while.  Heck I don’t know, maybe you haven’t noticed.  I stopped doing the posts because the comments dropped off, it took a lot of work to find worthy blogs and quite frankly, some of the blog owners failed to even acknowledge the recognition.  Sorry, but a good part of the reasoning for doing the series was to promote community.  It is too damned much work to not get any participation from the owners.

With that said (and I’m glad THAT’s off my chest), I recently discovered a blog that is so outstanding, so helpful, so wonderful, I just have to share it.

I found Joel Friedlander’s The Book Designer website through a Twitter follow.  In the past few weeks he has had some posts that were so completely friggin’ awesome I was tempted to ask permission to repost the entire thing on Tumblemoose.

Don’t be fooled by the blog title.  Joel discusses so much more than just the design of books.  He did a great post on everything you could want to know about ISBNs.  Another was a post on the pros and cons of self publishing.  What put me over the edge was the post I read today on the Census.  Had me rolling on the floor laughing, that one did.

Here’s the particulars:

Follow Joel on Twitter @JFbookman

The Book Designer is at http://www.thebookdesigner.com/

You should most definitely subscribe at http://www.thebookdesigner.com/feed/

Go pay him a visit.  My highest recommendation.