Blog - How to Blog a Book

October 21, 2014 by Nina Amir 1 Comment

8 Time-Management Tips for Bloggers

I manage a lot of blogs—four to be exact—and I guest blog for other sites as well. It’s no wonder, therefore, that I often get asked, “How do you get it all done?” Although I don’t consider myself the most effective time manager, I can offer you a few tips on how to make your […]

October 16, 2014 by Nina Amir 7 Comments

10 Quick and Easy Ways to Test, Publish and Sell Your Book

Guest post by Carla King You’ve got your manuscript, so now what? Before committing to big distribution, try these quick and easy ways to publish while you finesse your book with great editing and design. You won’t even need to buy an ISBN number. If you’re not quite ready for prime time, beta publishing is […]

October 14, 2014 by Nina Amir 2 Comments

Think Short to Finally Get that Book Blogged

Aspiring authors and bloggers often tell me they don’t know how to get started blogging their books. They have ideas and they think they know what content they want to include, but they hit a stumbling block when it comes to producing a detailed outline or deciding upon a structure. They can’t brainstorm and organize […]

October 9, 2014 by Nina Amir 4 Comments

How to Test Market Your Book Idea with a Blog

I once heard Ellen Archer, president and publisher of Hyperion Books, say the advent of blogs provided publishers for the first time with a way to test market potential books. In other words, a successful blog equals a successfully test marketed book idea. Why? Publishers consider loyal blog readers and subscribers potential buyers of a […]

October 7, 2014 by Nina Amir 6 Comments

11 Ways to Use Your Blog to Become an Expert…FAST!

If you write nonfiction, or if you have the goal of building a business around your book(s) or your blog, you want to develop expert status—assuming you don’t have it already. A blog provides the perfect vehicle for creating authority in your subject area or industry, and this helps you get noticed as well as […]

October 2, 2014 by Nina Amir 2 Comments

7 Reasons to Blog a Short Book…FAST!

Most of the time I tell those who want to blog books to write long. But once your full-length book is complete, of if you’ve got an established blog, there are many reasons to write short. By this I mean blog short books. Most people think a book has to be long and must take […]

September 30, 2014 by Nina Amir 2 Comments

24 Ways to Keep Your Blog Alive After You Stop Blogging Your Book

You’ve spent the last six to nine months—maybe more—blogging your book, and you’re manuscript finally is complete. Now what? How will you keep your blog alive now that that you don’t have a book to write post by post? Good question…and one you should have answered before you began blogging. When you begin blogging a […]

September 25, 2014 by Nina Amir 4 Comments

How to Blog a Completed Manuscript

You’ve already written your book, but you want to test the market or build an author platform before release by blogging it. How do you take your completed manuscript and break it down into 300- to 500-word pieces—blog posts—when you wrote it to flow as one continuous chapter after another? Good question. I continue to […]