Tue 14 Oct 2014
LIBRARY JOURNAL’s Top Five Mystery Blogs: Which Are the Other Four?
Posted by Steve under General[7] Comments
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Thanks to all who’ve contributed to M*F over the years, subscribed to the print version, or left comments. This blog would be nothing without you.
October 14th, 2014 at 11:04 pm
And thank you for MYSTERY FILE, which I’ve been reading for over 40 years now. I’m always looking for the top 10% and this blog is certainly one of the very best.
October 14th, 2014 at 11:33 pm
Forty years is a long time. I can’t think of too many others who’ve been reading Mystery*File since issue one, in one form or another. I wonder if I still have those early issues. I’m sure I do, but where? That’s the question.
October 15th, 2014 at 7:09 am
Congratulations on this very well-desreved honor!
I only learned about Mystery*File since it started appearing on-line. One suspects it is getting a much bigger audience through the Internet. Its mountain of valuable information and ideas need to reach as big an audience as possible.
October 15th, 2014 at 8:28 am
I do not miss the days of the printed M*F. It was fun at the time, but I don’t remember doing more then a dozen or so issues in a row before getting overwhelmed or burned out (but never bored) and having to go on another hiatus.
The blog format fits me just fine. I can post what I want and when I want, and I don’t have to keep a list of subscribers or pay for printing. I can add color images and embed videos, and monitoring the comments doesn’t take any time at all.
The first post on this blog was right after Christmas in 2006, and to this point in time, coming up on eight years later, there have been 4161 posts, with 133,327 comments approved. (This does not include 5,305,928 spam comments, most of which I have never seen.)
Total visits to the blog: 1,261,171, averaging 575 a day. The print version seldom went to over 100 an issue, with 200 the absolute tops. Quite a difference!
October 15th, 2014 at 3:13 pm
So, should contributors be referred to as M*Fers?
October 15th, 2014 at 3:31 pm
Graham
Only some of us are M*Fers.
Steve
Well deserved accolade. I’ve visited and enjoyed many of the others but I think this is the easiest and most open site to newcomers saying something and joining in. A few of the others virtually want a birth certificate and a credit card to leave a comment.
I think this site has the widest divergence of opinion and generally the most civil bloggers, many of whom are experts on various areas in their own right to mention more than a few pros who drop in semi regularly, and some fine past reviews by people no longer with us whose opinions are still valid and worth reading.
And more credit to Jonathan who has stepped up and been such a help to you recently. We all appreciate the job he is doing as well.
October 15th, 2014 at 5:40 pm
Yes, I know all about the unfortunate choice of initials for this blog. It’s too late to change anything now. At least you got the asterisk right, Graham. It’s been there since day one, and a lot of people have been known to leave it out.