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 […]
Will You End Up With a Blook?
Every since I began this blog I’ve been repeating over and over again that you are blogging a book. And, indeed, you are. What do you end up with, though, once you have a printed book based upon that blogged book? A blook. That’s right. A blook is printed book that contains or is based […]
How to Blog A Tip Book in 30 Days or Less
I love producing short books fast, and I often teach workshops on this topic. Writers get very excited about becoming a published author in under a month. What better time to try writing and publishing a short book fast than during what I have decided to call National Book Blogging Month (NaBoBloMo). As I said at the beginning […]
What kind of book could you produce from your blog content?
The majority of bloggers who have landed book deals didn’t set out to blog a book. They simply blogged their way to a book deal. And once they signed on the dotted line, they had to figure out how to book their blog—repurpose all those blog posts into a manuscript that would read like a […]
Last Stages: Interior and Cover Book Design
I am now in the last stages of my blog-to-book process. I recently got my first view of the interior design of the book, and several months ago I received a copy of the cover design. You might wonder if I had any say over either of these things. No. When I first saw the […]
Darren Rowse on Book Deals and Discovery in the Blogosphere
Like most recipients of blog-to-book deals, Darren Rowse landed his while simply blogging. However, he already had started thinking about writing a book—or, more specifically, turning his blog, ProBlogger, into a book. Then, he and his blog were discovered. That’s what many of us want—that email or phone call from an agent or publisher saying, […]
What NOT to Do When You Book a Blog
I highly recommend repurposing, or recycling your blog posts into a book. However, you can’t just slap you posts together and say, “Done!” Just this morning I was reading an announcement about a booked blog, one that was repurposed into a book, and thinking, “Wow. This guy has it all wrong.” The blogger and author, […]
Turn a Series of Blog Posts into a Short Book
I often teach a workshop called “How to Write a (Short) Book Fast.” As part of this workshop, I discussing booking a series of blog posts, which means repurposing 10 or 15 posts you’ve written in succession on the same topic. I did this with my book, 10 Days and 10 Ways to Your Best […]
2011 May Exceed 2009 Blog-to-Book Deal Numbers
You may be bored with these posts, but I’m not. Today I started jumping up and down in my office when I discovered yet one more blog released as a book in October. Why? That brings the number of blog-to-books released by traditional publishers in October that I know about–there likely are more–to 6. That […]