I couldn’t help but take notice when my Google Alert brought up this blog-to-book deal: Your Boyfriend and Other Guys I’ve Kissed: The Tails of Totally Tyler. It was written by someone named Totally Tyler. I looked at the cover. This was worth pursuing. Tyler shows what can happen when you blog—or blog a book—honestly, […]
Seducing Readers, Publishers and A Spouse at the Same Time
If you worry about privacy issue or being too personal on your blog, don’t. Just follow Betty Herbert’s lead…all the way to a book deal. The 52 Seductions charts the project Betty Herbert undertook with her husband to seduce each other once a week for a year. The book builds on the original blog but […]
How to Land an Agent and Write a Booked Blog to Be Proud Of
Who would have thought charts would make a successful blog and book? But there’s a blog and a book for everyone. Jason Oberholtzer’s blog, I Love Charts (ilovecharts.tumblr.com), is a tumblr blog that puts up about 10 charts a day, Monday through Friday, culled from the Internet and submitted by followers or made by Oberholtzer […]
Joel Friedlander on Creating a Successful Booked Blog
Joel Friedlander, author and book designer, posts articles about independent publishing, writing, book design, and book marketing on his blog, TheBookDesigner.com. The blog was founded in November 2009 and currently has over 840 articles on these subjects. His book, A Self-Publisher’s Companion: Expert Advice for Authors Who Want to Publish, uses the same branding as […]
Rami Shapiro Talks About How to Co-Author a Blogged Book
A reverend and a rabbi start a blog…stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Actually, Baptist minister Michael Smith and Jewish rabbi Rami M. Shapiro actually did start a blog called Mount and Mountain. The blog recorded a long-running dialogue between Mike and Rami in which the pair interpreted, argued about, and interrogated two […]
How to Blog a Finished Novel and Land a Traditional Contract
The two most common questions I hear from fiction writers considering blogging books are: Should I blog full chapters? Should I blog my completed novel? To the first question, I typically answer, no. If you blog full chapters, you are just serializing your novel, not blogging it. Blogging a book involves publishing it in post-sized […]
Rachel Barenblat Speaks About Blogging and Booking Poetry
This month on How to Blog a Book, I’ll be featuring blog-to-books—both traditionally published and self-published. In many cases (hopefully all), I will offer you unique insight into the bloggers, their process and how they went from blog to book. I begin the month with an interview with a blogger I’ve followed for quite some […]
Should You Use a Pen Name When You Blog a Book (or Blog)?
Many aspiring authors and bloggers put off starting their projects while contemplating one big issue: using their real name on their work. The debate whether or not to use a pseudonym or a pen name. To me, this issue comes down to fear. Sometimes the fear has sound basis. Sometimes not. These are things to […]
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