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July 31, 2012 by Nina Amir 8 Comments

How to Successfully Self-Publish Your eBooked Blog

What happens if you don’t want to be discovered by a traditional publisher–if you’d rather book your own blog? Or what if you don’t get discovered by an agent or publisher and decide to become an indie publisher instead? Maybe you want to try your hand at producing an ebook… How do you make sure […]

Filed Under: Blogs Turned Into Books, Booking a Blog (Repurposing Content into a Book) Tagged With: Amazon Bestseller, booking a blog, branding, ebook, self-publishing

July 26, 2012 by Nina Amir 7 Comments

How Finding Your Blog Niche Can Result in a Book Deal

If you want to know what happens when you simply find your niche as a blogger, read Smoky Trudeau Zeidel’s success story. She claims to have floundered around as a blogger. Then she moved to California and struck gold not only with her blog but with her blog-to-book deal—after just a few months of blogging […]

Filed Under: Blogs Turned Into Books, Booking a Blog (Repurposing Content into a Book) Tagged With: blog-to-book deal, booking a blog, finding a publisher, niche blogging, outdoor blog

July 24, 2012 by Nina Amir 5 Comments

How to Boldy and Honestly Blog Your Way to a Book Deal

Totally Tyler

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, […]

Filed Under: Blogs Turned Into Books, Booking a Blog (Repurposing Content into a Book) Tagged With: authenticity, boldness, honesty, self-publishing, traditional publishing

July 19, 2012 by Nina Amir 2 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Blogs Turned Into Books, Booking a Blog (Repurposing Content into a Book) Tagged With: 52 Seductions, agents, Betty Herbert, journalists, Twitter

July 17, 2012 by Nina Amir 3 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Blogs Turned Into Books, Booking a Blog (Repurposing Content into a Book) Tagged With: charts, I Love Charts, literary agent, tumblr

July 12, 2012 by Nina Amir 2 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Blogs Turned Into Books, Booking a Blog (Repurposing Content into a Book) Tagged With: book editing, booked blog, indie publishing, repurposed blog posts, self-publishing

July 3, 2012 by Nina Amir 12 Comments

Rachel Barenblat Speaks About Blogging and Booking Poetry

Do you want to blog a book of 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 […]

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March 29, 2012 by Nina Amir 3 Comments

Publishing Options for Your Booked Blog

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Once your booked blog has been professionally edited, you must decide how you will publish it. You have a variety of options for turning your blogged book manuscript into an actual book. Traditional Publishing If you’ve come this far—spending time and money on professional editing services, you have likely decided not to go the traditionally […]

Filed Under: Booking a Blog (Repurposing Content into a Book), Create a POD Book, Create an E-Book, What to Do When You Complete Your Blogged Book Tagged With: book covers, booked blog, ebooks, self-publishing

March 27, 2012 by Nina Amir 10 Comments

Choosing the Right Editor for Your Booked Blog

Once you have self-edited your booked blog manuscript, send it to a professional editor for another round of developing and polishing (or two or three). After all, that’s what professional editors are: developers and polishers of manuscripts. They make sure the story or content is fully developed—reader friendly and reader ready—and they polish the prose […]

Filed Under: Booking a Blog (Repurposing Content into a Book), Edit Your Manuscript, What to Do When You Complete Your Blogged Book Tagged With: blogged book editor, booked blog editor, content editor, copy editing, copy editor, develomental editor, line editor

March 22, 2012 by Nina Amir 3 Comments

Why a Booked Blog Manuscript Needs Editing

Compiling a blogged book manuscript from all those posts you’ve previously written can be a big job—especially if you didn’t do a good job of organizing your blog with categories and tags. If you did, the manuscript may have come together pretty easily. However, as I mentioned in my last post, all you have now […]

Filed Under: Booking a Blog (Repurposing Content into a Book) Tagged With: booking a blog, editing, first draft, self-publishing

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