A Step-by-Step Guide for Writing, Publishing & Promoting Your Manuscript on the Internet
If you have decided to try traditional publishing, you will likely need a literary agent. As mentioned in my last post, this is especially true if you want to approach a mid-sized to large publishing house. Even if you opt to approach a small independent publisher, though, in the end, you may wish you had [...]
Welcome to National Book Blogging Month 2013! Here at howtoblogabook.com, your April challenge is to blog a book in 30 days, and that’s no April Fool’s Day prank. Some of you may be familiar with National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) or a similar event I host called National Nonfiction Writing Month (NaNonFiWriMo), also know as [...]
Blogging Basics for Aspiring Authors: Lesson 25 In the last three months, I’ve provided you with 25 blog posts containing 30 tips to help you improve your blog and your blogging skills, as well as your blogged book. If you’ve tried to implement them all in that amount of time, you might feel overwhelmed and [...]
Blogging Basics for Aspiring Authors: Lesson 24 As I get ready to wrap up the “Blogging Basics for Aspiring Authors” series, which began in January, I’d like to offer you five more underutilized ways to improve your blog or your blogged book. If you spend some time with each of these tips, you also will [...]
Blogging Basics for Aspiring Authors: Lesson 23 Readers of your blogged book, or blog, are consumers. Like most consumers, they make choices daily about what online products they will choose to purchase, or read, each day. Many of these choices are made based on branding. If you have done a good job branding your blogged [...]
Blogging Basics for Aspiring Authors: Lesson 22 When readers come to your blogged book site, they typically find the last piece you published first. They may or may not want to start reading your book from the end. If you’ve provided them with a way to navigate to the beginning of the book, such as [...]
Blogging Basics for Aspiring Authors: Lesson 21 When you first set up our blog so you can begin blogging your book, I recommend not getting too hung up on blog design. As time goes on and you begin to attract readers, you want to consider the visual appeal of your blog so you and your [...]
Blogging Basics for Aspiring Authors: Lesson 20 Most blogs commonly include an “About” page. Typically, this page describes the blog, the blogger or both. When you blog a book, however, consider including an “About This Book” page. The content you provide on this page alerts your readers to the fact you actually are blogging a [...]
Blogging Basics for Aspiring Authors: Lesson 19 When your blogged book (or blog) begins to attract readers, you don’t want them to just read one post and go away…possibly never to come back. You want to provide a way for them to opt into staying in touch with you and your blog—so you can stay [...]
Blogging Basics for Aspiring Authors: Lesson 17 To gain a competitive advantage in your market as a book blogger, or simply as a blogger, take off your blinders and take a look at the practices employed by successful bloggers. Conduct a competitive analysis by evaluating successful blogs in your category or successful blogs in general [...]
Blogging Basics for Aspiring Authors: Lesson 16 You can improve your blog in a variety of ways by tying your posts into the news. This keeps your content timely and relevant to current events. It also drives additional traffic to your site as people, searching for articles on these hot topics, find your posts and [...]
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Blogging Basics for Aspiring Authors: Lesson 18 Engagement remains the watchword when it comes to building author platform on social media. That means it’s not just about how many unique visitors—readers—your blogged book attracts, or even about how many followers you have on Twitter, Facebook or Google Plus. It’s about how often they share, talk [...]