How to Blog a Book

Inspiring You to Build Visibility, Boost Authority and Become an Author Post by Post

Inspiring You to Build Visibility, Boost Authority and Become an Author Post by Post

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How a Blog Fulfills One Man’s Dream of Authorship

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 […]

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

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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8 Reasons to Book a Blog

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

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

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 […]

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Successful Books Require Preparation

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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11 Ways to Know if Your Blog Deserves to Become 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 […]

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Take the Blog-a-Book Challenge

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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How to Book a Blog Using Scrivener

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 […]