How to Blog a Better Book: Lesson #7 At this point in the process of planning out your blogged book, you are almost ready to give your book’s spine, which you created with your TOC, some flesh—some real content. Before you begin writing, though, I suggest you take the time to complete three more planning […]
Create a Strong Structure to Support Your Blogged Book
How to Blog a Better Book: Lesson #6 Before you can turn an idea into a book you must give that book a structure. This structure, known as the Table of Contents, supports your idea much like a human spine supports the body. Later, you put “flesh on the bone” when you determine the content […]
Write a Successful Book by Focusing Content on Benefit to Readers
How to Blog a Better Book: Lesson #5 To blog a successful book—one that attracts many readers and subscribers and later many book buyers (and maybe even a publisher)—you must conceive your idea with the “WIIFM Factor” in mind. The WIIFM factor represents the value your blog and book will add to readers’ lives or […]
Craft a Book Pitch So You Know What You are Writing About
How to Blog a Better Book: Lesson #4 Many aspiring authors have no idea what they are really writing about. You’ll find evidence of this by asking them to answer this question: “What’s your book about?” If it takes them more than a minute to answer the question, they don’t know. These same aspiring authors […]
Angles and Themes Help You Write a Unique and Valuable Blogged Book
How to Blog a Better Book: Lesson #3 Angles make your blogged book unique. Themes give them value. When you blog a book, or simply set out to write a book, train yourself to think about your book in these terms so you write a book that isn’t like those previously published and that addresses your […]
Write a Unique and Necessary Blogged Book with Easily Recognized Value
How to Blog a Better Book: Lesson #2 There’s nothing worse than completing an entire manuscript only to discover that someone else has already released a book just like or quite similar to the one you planned to publish. That’s one of the reasons why I have my blog-to-book coaching clients complete a competitive analysis […]
Write for Your Market to Ensure Your Book Sells
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 […]
Remain Passionate and On Purpose to Achieve Inspired Blogging Results
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 […]
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