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January 7, 2020 by Nina Amir Leave a Comment

How a Blog Fulfills One Man’s Dream of Authorship

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Many writers begin their journey to authorship after reading a children’s book. However, not all of them become bloggers and end up writing and blogging books. At the age of six, Bryan Collins, a nonfiction author from Ireland, read BFG by Roald Dahl and became enthralled by the idea of a Big Friendly Giant who […]

Filed Under: Blogs Turned Into Books, Booking a Blog (Repurposing Content into a Book), Success Stories - Blogged Books Tagged With: blog-to-book process, blogging, blogging a book, booked blog, how to book a blog, nonfiction writing, success story

August 9, 2016 by Nina Amir 5 Comments

Are Blogs Still a Viable Way to Build Platform and Get Published?

blogs are alive and well--just like blogging and blogging books

Blogs are dead. You may have heard someone make this statement or say something similar, like No one reads blogs any longer. Or Blogs are being replaced by newer technology for communicating with a target audience…like podcasting and live streaming video. Is it true? No. It is, however, true that the blogosphere has changed and […]

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May 10, 2016 by Nina Amir 4 Comments

8 Reasons to Book a Blog

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Long-term bloggers are in a fabulous position to turn their blog content into a valuable book. However, some bloggers don’t know why they’d want to go to the trouble of “booking” their blogs. If you are on the fence about transforming yourself from blogger to author, these eight reasons might convince you to book your […]

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April 19, 2016 by Nina Amir 3 Comments

How to Create a Successful Blogged-Book or Booked-Blog Project

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As a blogger, you are uniquely suited to become an author. If you have a successful site, meaning one with a large and engaged readership, you have set up yourself to produce bestselling books. You can use your blog effectively to transform yourself from blogger to author. Either blog a book or book a blog. […]

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August 11, 2015 by Nina Amir 3 Comments

Six Things to Consider Before Making a Book Out of Your Blog Posts

is your blog material worthy of a book

Just because you have lot of blog posts doesn’t mean you have a book. In this guest post, Frank Daley (@TheFrankDaley) discusses how to evaluate if your blog contains material worthy of publication. So you want to put those blog posts into a book? Good Idea. Maybe. The idea of repurposing a series of blog […]

Filed Under: Blogging Short Books, Blogs Turned Into Books, Booking a Blog (Repurposing Content into a Book)

July 21, 2015 by Nina Amir 3 Comments

Successful Books Require Preparation

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If you think you can blog a book or book a blog without preparation, you’re right. If you think you should, you’re wrong. It takes work to craft a book that sells—whether it’s a book you write in blog-post-sized bits or that you create from repurposed posts. I’m not talking about writing either. I’m talking […]

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June 16, 2015 by Nina Amir 4 Comments

11 Ways to Know if Your Blog Deserves to Become a Book

indicators that a blog deserves to be a book

Maybe you, like lots of bloggers, think your site contains enough content—or good enough content—to produce a book. And maybe your blog posts could be turned into a book (or “blook,” as they are called sometimes). Before you go to the time, trouble and expense of “booking your blog,” first evaluate if your blog deserves […]

Filed Under: Booking a Blog (Repurposing Content into a Book) Tagged With: blog-to-book, book a blog

June 4, 2015 by Nina Amir 3 Comments

Take the Blog-a-Book Challenge

blog a book in a year

I don’t know if you’ve ever noticed, but this site contains a challenge. It has been here for about four years. The challenge is quite simple: Write a blog post per day and a book per year. Are you up for it? As the site states: The point [of the challenge] is to blog your […]

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May 5, 2015 by Nina Amir Leave a Comment

How to Book a Blog Using Scrivener

Scrivener for blogging

I use Scrivener to write most of my blog posts. Why? Because Scrivener allows me easily to file them in folders and later, if I want, turn those folders into books. However, before I used Scrivener, my posts were all written in Word or directly into WordPress. That made it hard to create a manuscript […]

Filed Under: Booking a Blog (Repurposing Content into a Book) Tagged With: blogging, blogging a book, booking a blog, Scrivener

February 5, 2015 by Nina Amir 1 Comment

7 Ways to Mine Blog Posts into Publishable Gold

Most bloggers simply blog. Day in and day out, they write their posts and publish them in Cyberspace. They produce a lot of content, but as one post after another pile up in front of the last, the older ones get lost in a deep dark blog hole. There they remain. If you are like […]

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