Authors who want to inspire change need readers to take up their causes. Yet, the average book today sells 250 copies per year. Most ebooks never sell more than 100 copies—if that. An author can’t become a change agent, or an author of change, on any large scale with that level of readership. However, a […]
How Writers and Bloggers Can Use the Rule of 5 To Become Discoverable
Whether you are an aspiring author or published author or simply a blogger, discoverability remains the watchword. That means you have to find ways to make yourself and your work easily found on the Internet. How do you do that? Lot’s of exerts have written articles and blog posts about how to improve discoverability or […]
5 Ways to Start Blogging Your Change-Inspiring Book When Inspiration Hits
When the light bulb goes off, and you get that BIG idea—the one that fulfills your purpose, feels like a calling or has a sense of mission about it, you don’t want to wait to take action. You want to act immediately, while you feel inspired. In fact, in the moment when passion and purpose […]
How to Blog Books that Inspire Change
If you want to blog a book that inspires change in your readers, blog it. The most important aspect of any inspirational book—one that inspires someone to action—is found in your desire to write the book and to inspire others. The authors of books that create positive movements—personally, organizationally or globally—feel called to do so. […]
Jared Gulian’s Blog-to-Book Goes Over the Moon in Martinborough
Jared Gulian wanted eventually to write a book. Instead, he began his blog, Moon Over Martinborough without knowing how the content he produced would become a book. A year later, he I started figuring out how to turn his posts, which had become quite popular, into something publishable—a task he said was not so easy. […]
Pressbooks: An Option for Blogging Books and Booking Blogs from Start to Finish
I’m always on the look out for ways writers and bloggers can easily blog their books or book their blogs. For some time now I have been aware of Pressbooks.com, but I haven’t had the time to try producing a book using their technology. Thus, I was hesitant to recommend the service. I’ll be trying […]
10 Ways to Become an Author of Change With a Blog
In a few weeks I’ll be speaking at the San Francisco Writing for Change Conference. This is my favorite conference because it is focused on helping nonfiction writers who want to become change agents get their books published. It’s attended by aspiring and published authors who write about self-help, healthy living, spirituality, human potential, ecology […]
The Main Reason Your Blog Doesn’t Attract Readers
A few weeks ago I offered discounted strategy sessions on blogging books and blogging in general. Just about half of the aspiring or published authors and bloggers I spoke with wanted to know how to attract more readers to their blogs. When I took a look at their sites I inevitably discovered the same problem: […]
Are You Allowing Readers to Share Your Blog Posts?
Just about every week I get a call from a blogger who wants to know how to increase blog readership. When I visit the blog, I discover the same problem: The blogger has not provided a way for readers to share blog posts. Shared Posts Equate to More Readers It’s important to get readers to […]
Why You Need a Business Plan For Your Book (Before You Blog It)
Historically, the majority of blog-to-book deals have been booked blogs. That means the blogger didn’t plan out a book and write it on the blog. When the blog became successful, a publisher asked the blogger to repurpose the blog into a book manuscript. Not only that, most bloggers don’t plan out their blogs. They just […]
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