Nina Amir, Author at How to Blog a Book

January 3, 2013 by Nina Amir Leave a Comment

You Need Courage and Authenticity to Succeed as a Book Blogger

Blogging Basics for Aspiring Authors: Lesson 1 To succeed as a book blogger, or even as a blogger, you need to develop courage. You need to be willing to fearlessly show yourself and your knowledge to the world via your written words. That’s right; no more hiding behind your words. You must use your writing […]

January 1, 2013 by Nina Amir 5 Comments

Will You Blog or Blog a Book in 2013?

Happy New Year! It’s 2013. Did you blog a book last year? If so, I hope you will tell me about it so I might feature you. Are you blogging a book now? If so, I hope you’ve listed it so others will know about it and follow your progress. Did you never quite manage […]

December 27, 2012 by Nina Amir 1 Comment

Traditionally Published Author Self-Publishes a Booked Blog

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 […]

December 25, 2012 by Nina Amir 1 Comment

15 Gifts Book Bloggers Can Give Themselves

Most of the world is celebrate Christmas today. It doesn’t matter what holiday you celebrate, though. (I celebrated Chanukah.) Consider giving yourself some writerly or bloggerly gifts that you can put to use this year to help your realize your goal of blogging your book and getting published. Here are my 10 suggestions for gifts […]

December 18, 2012 by Nina Amir 2 Comments

Using Your Blogged Book as a Branding Tool

When you create a blog for the purpose of blogging a book, you have to ask yourself an important question: Do I want this blog—and this blogged book—to serve as a branding mechanism for me as a writer and as an author? The answer determines how you design your blog. The question actually represents a […]

December 13, 2012 by Nina Amir 3 Comments

A Crafter’s Experience of Blogging a Book

I started writing the Creating Craft: A Guide to Designing Original Pieces book blog in early September. I had wanted to write a book about designing original craftwork for some time, but was reluctant to take on the project because I knew I’d be unlikely to finish. I’d already tried to write one book before, […]

December 11, 2012 by Nina Amir 3 Comments

Why You Should Promote Your Blogged Book on Pinterest

A major key to promoting your blogged book lies in utilizing social networks.Each time you write a blog post, you share the link to that post in an update on each of your social networks, like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Facebook. (I wrote a post about this here.) However, if you aren’t expanding these efforts […]

December 6, 2012 by Nina Amir 6 Comments

What Is SEO and Should Book Bloggers Care About It?

Bloggers and website owners seem to obsess about search engine optimization (SEO). As a writer or book blogger, you might be wondering, “What the heck is SEO and should I even care about it?” You do need to know what SEO is and care about it to some extent, but if you write a good […]

December 4, 2012 by Nina Amir 7 Comments

How Blogging a Book Provides You with a Continuous Flow of Blog Posts

The core principle behind blogging a book lies in having the forethought to plan out your idea in post-sized bits that you write and publish on your blog. Instead of blogging aimlessly and then going back and booking your blog, prior to beginning to write your book you develop a content plan that determines the […]

November 29, 2012 by Nina Amir 7 Comments

How a Blog Series Created Reader Demand for a Booked Blog

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 […]