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March 3, 2015 by Nina Amir 3 Comments

Why Now is the Best Time to Blog a Book

If ever there were a time to start a blog or to blog a book, it’s now. Yes, the blogosphere is crowded and loud. On the other hand, the number of people on or using the internet continues to grow, which creates an enormous opportunity for anyone—including authors and bloggers. Now truly is the best […]

February 26, 2015 by Nina Amir 2 Comments

How to Write Titles that Make People Read Your Posts

Headlines are the most important part of your blog post. Without a good title, you can’t compel your followers on social media sites to click through to your site or entice subscribers to move their eyes down the page to read your post. That’s why you must write blog post titles that attract readers—to the […]

February 24, 2015 by Nina Amir 9 Comments

How to Blog Faster: Tips From Six Experts

One of the biggest complaints I hear from writers, authors and bloggers is this: Blogging takes too long. Sometimes writing and publishing a post can take a long time…but blogging doesn’t have to be a time-consuming process. You can blog faster. That said, some successful bloggers choose to spend more time on their posts—and with […]

February 17, 2015 by Nina Amir Leave a Comment

Tsh Oxenreider on Going from Blog to Book: Organized Simplicity

Tsh Oxenreider blogs about intentional, simple living, which covers a myriad of topics. However, she focuses specifically on “parents of children at home who crave less crazy, more peace, and joy in the little things.” SimpleMom. net, her flagship site, covers topics like productivity, taking care of yourself, DIY ideas, green and frugal living, and […]

February 12, 2015 by Nina Amir Leave a Comment

A Blogged Book Has to Be Greater than the Sum of Its Posts

What could be an easier process to write a new book than to go to my Memoir Writers’ Blog, pullout some articles on the same topic, and put them together? After all, I had read How To Blog Your Book by Nina Amir, a helpful book that inspired and guided me in the composition of […]

February 10, 2015 by Nina Amir 4 Comments

8 Ways to Turn Your Blog Into a Content Marketing Machine

Most writers realize their blog offers a phenomenal tool for building author’s platform and for promoting a book once it’s been published. However, you may not realize the variety of ways in which you can actually put your blog to use to create a loyal fan base, sell more books and produce more useable content—even […]

February 5, 2015 by Nina Amir 1 Comment

7 Ways to Mine Blog Posts into Publishable Gold

Most bloggers simply blog. Day in and day out, they write their posts and publish them in Cyberspace. They produce a lot of content, but as one post after another pile up in front of the last, the older ones get lost in a deep dark blog hole. There they remain. If you are like […]

February 3, 2015 by Nina Amir 2 Comments

7 Tips for Turning Your Blog into a Book

As the blog-to-book trend continues on its upward curve, more and more bloggers see their blogs as gold mines filled with nuggets of content waiting to be extracted, refined and cast into books. Writers, on the other hand, historically have balked at becoming bloggers. Many aspiring and published authors turn to blogging simply because this […]