A Step-by-Step Guide for Writing, Publishing & Promoting Your Manuscript on the Internet
Although this blog focuses a fair amount of attention on blogging books to get “discovered” by literary agents and acquisitions editors at traditional publishing houses, there’s just as much value in blogging a book—or simply blogging—to create the audience you need to produce a successful self-published book. No one knows this better than someone who [...]
When Angela Ackerman and I started The Bookshelf Muse back in 2008, we had no intention of turning its content into a book. Mostly, we just wanted to help and encourage other writers. As critique partners, we knew that our characters tended to repeat body cues for certain emotions (mine were always shifting their feet [...]
While the majority of blog to book deals are booked blogs, not blogged books, some successful bloggers actually choose not to repurpose their content into a book when they decide to write a book. For instance, Jenny Lawson, The Blogess, didn’t use material from her blog when she wrote Let’s Pretend This Never Happened: (A [...]
At the end of July I came across an interesting blog-to-book deal featured in The Huffington Post, and I quickly contacted the author. Again, it’s a booked blog, but a very cool idea from a very cool young lady. (When will bloggers start blogging books and make their lives easier when they land these book [...]
Content is king! Content is king! Content is king! As bloggers and as aspiring authors, this concept gets drilled into our heads. We are told that writing great posts, articles and manuscripts gets readers to our blogs and attracts agents and publishers. Yet, some bloggers can get blog-to-book deals without writing a single paragraph of [...]
What happens if you don’t want to be discovered by a traditional publisher–if you’d rather book your own blog? Or what if you don’t get discovered by an agent or publisher and decide to become an indie publisher instead? Maybe you want to try your hand at producing an ebook… How do you make sure [...]
If you want to know what happens when you simply find your niche as a blogger, read Smoky Trudeau Zeidel’s success story. She claims to have floundered around as a blogger. Then she moved to California and struck gold not only with her blog but with her blog-to-book deal—after just a few months of blogging [...]
I couldn’t help but take notice when my Google Alert brought up this blog-to-book deal: Your Boyfriend and Other Guys I’ve Kissed: The Tails of Totally Tyler. It was written by someone named Totally Tyler. I looked at the cover. This was worth pursuing. Tyler shows what can happen when you blog—or blog a book—honestly, [...]
If you worry about privacy issue or being too personal on your blog, don’t. Just follow Betty Herbert’s lead…all the way to a book deal. The 52 Seductions charts the project Betty Herbert undertook with her husband to seduce each other once a week for a year. The book builds on the original blog but [...]
Who would have thought charts would make a successful blog and book? But there’s a blog and a book for everyone. Jason Oberholtzer’s blog, I Love Charts (ilovecharts.tumblr.com), is a tumblr blog that puts up about 10 charts a day, Monday through Friday, culled from the Internet and submitted by followers or made by Oberholtzer [...]
Joel Friedlander, author and book designer, posts articles about independent publishing, writing, book design, and book marketing on his blog, TheBookDesigner.com. The blog was founded in November 2009 and currently has over 840 articles on these subjects. His book, A Self-Publisher’s Companion: Expert Advice for Authors Who Want to Publish, uses the same branding as [...]
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Rami Shapiro Talks About How to Co-Author a Blogged Book
A reverend and a rabbi start a blog…stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Actually, Baptist minister Michael Smith and Jewish rabbi Rami M. Shapiro actually did start a blog called Mount and Mountain. The blog recorded a long-running dialogue between Mike and Rami in which the pair interpreted, argued about, and interrogated two [...]