Have you been wondering what up with me and my manuscript or how I’m doing getting How to Blog a Book discovered? Well, here’s the deal. I have to admit that once I was done blogging the book, I did not keep up with posting or promoting–at least for a while. I figured I had […]
A Blog Post a Day is a Book a Year…or More
I’ll be speaking at the San Francisco Writer’s Conference on Sunday. My topic: A Blog Post a Day is a Book a Year. And that’s the challenge to you, my readers. Starting tomorrow, I challenge you to begin writing a blog post a day and to have as your goal to finish blogging a book […]
How a Blog Might Help You Land a Book Deal
So many writers don’t want to blog. I don’t understand why, since I love blogging. I have five blogs. And some writers may not want to blog a book. Maybe you are reading this blog even though you don’t plan on blogging a book–but maybe you’d like to know how blogging will help you land […]
What to do if you didn’t plan to blog a book?
Most bloggers don’t set out to blog a book. They don’t even intend to write a book–ever. However, many bloggers discover after many, many posts on one topic that they have enough material–possibly too much material–for a book. Thus, they move out of Cyberspace and into the real world of physically published material. Or maybe […]
What’s Up with Blog-to-Book Deals?
Publisher’s Marketplace reports that 100 blog or Internet-related books were picked up last year. Most of them were not-so-worth-reading blog-to-book deals. According to Wall Street Journal’s Andy Jordan’s latest Tech Diary, publishers admit that bloggers with large readership allow them have a form of market research previously unavailable. If Internet readers flock to a blog, […]
6 Things You Need to Do Before You Blog a Book
Anyone can simply begin blogging. Blogging a book, however, that’s a different story. If you want to blog a book, approach the endeavor like you would any other book project you might undertake. Here’s a list of 6 things you need to do before you start blogging your book. 1. Choose a topic: You can […]
Learn First-Hand How to Go from Blog to Book
I discovered two superb posts about how one blogger’s blog became a book. Now, Gina Trapani, author of Lifehacker, didn’t set out to blog a book, but she offers some great information–not unlike the information I’ve offered–on how to blog a book. She also describes the process she went through to take make her blog […]
Posts in Message Board Lead to Two Book Deals
Here’s a great story about how a team of writers blogging together ended up with a book…and book deals. Actually, fantasy basketball posts on a message board led to a group of bloggers putting a book together. This led to two more books about basketball. You can read about Jessie Einhorn and his friends here. […]
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