Blog Blazers is a new book by Stephane Grenier, although he wrote few of the actual words.

Instead, he went out and interviewed 40 top bloggers and assembled their interviews into a book.

If you are looking for the one secret that will take your blog to the next level, it might be in there, but it will not be crystal clear.

I find this book fascinating because of the diversity of the answers.  One blogger will say adwords does not work, another says he makes $20,000 per month from Google Adwords.  Some say the headline of a blog is important, while others stress the content.

Sure, there are some things they all seem to agree on – good writing is fairly obvious.  But it is in the areas that these bloggers differ that I find more interesting.  And it shows how diverse the topic is.

If you are thinking about blogging, you are blogging but no one is reading it or if you want to rethink your blogging strategy, you should pick this book up.  No, it does not give you a clear blue print, but it is a feast of information to think about and find the pieces that apply to you.

Here is a list of the successful bloggers interviewed in Blog Blazers

1. Aaron Wall – SEO Book
2. Abdylas Tynyshov – AdesBlog.com
3. Al Carlton – Coolest-Gadgets.com
4. Alex Papadimoulis – The Daily WTF
5. Andy Brice – Successful Software
6. Anita Campbell – Small Business Trends
7. Asha Dornfesh – Parent Hacks
8. Ben Casnocha – My Startup Life
9. Benjamin Yoskovitz – Instigator Blog
10. Bob Walsh – 47 Hats
11. Dan Lyons – The Secret Diaries of Steve Jobs
12. Dane Carlson – Business Opportunities Weblog
13. David Armano – Logic + Emotion
14. David Seah – David Seah
15. Derek Semmler – Derek Semmler
16. Dharmesh Shaw – On Startups: A Community for Entrepreneurs
17. Eric Sink – Erik.Weblog()
18. Ian Landsman – UserScape
19. James & Alex – Google SightSeeing
20. J.D. Roth – Get Rich Slowly
21. Jeff Atwood – Coding Horror
22. Jeff Clavier – Jeff Clavier’s Software Only
23. Jennette Fulda – Half of Me
24. Jennifer Perry – 101 Reasons I Hate Being Fat
25. Jessamyn West – Librarian.net
26. Joel Cheesman – Cheezhead
27. Jonathan Snook – Snook.ca
28. Manolo Blahnik – Manolo’s Shoe Blog
29. Neil Patel – Quick Sprout
30. Pamela Slim – Escape from Cubicle Nation
31. Patrick McKenzie – MicroISV on a Showstring
32. Penelope Trunk – Brazen Careerist
33. Ramit Sethi – I Will Teach You To Be Rich
34. Rob Walling – Software By Rob
35. Rohin Bhargava – Influential Marketing Blog
36. Seth Godin – Seth Godin
37. Stephane Grenier – Follow Steph
38. Steve Rubel – Micro Persuasion
39. Trent Hamm – The Simple Dollar
40. Yaro Starak – Entrepreneur’s Journey

You may want to bookmark this page and come back after you by the book, Blog Blazers, to check out each blog quickly after reading the interviews.  Combining the interview and the blog visit is very insightful.