Yesterday I discussed how to use categories to find content for your booked blog. Another great way to find content when you are trying to repurpose your existing blog content into a book involves playing tag…metaphorically speaking, anyway. You use the tag feature of your blog to search out relevant content for your book. Tags […]
Mine Your Categories for Blog Content Gold
If you have done a good job of mapping out your booked blog’s content, you should now have a table of contents for your book and a list of subject you will cover in each chapter. Now it’s time mine your blog for gold: existing blog posts that will provide the content for your book. […]
How to Map Out the Content for a Booked Blog
Let’s assume you’ve been blogging for a while—maybe even a long while. You’ve got a lot of posts to rummage through. This can feel quite overwhelming, maybe as overwhelming as writing a book from scratch. So, let’s chunk the process down. Just like with any book, you have to begin by planning out your book’s […]
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 […]
Liz Strauss on How to Blog a Book, Repurpose Posts & Use Comments
Every once in a while you get to meet someone who inspires deep respect, who inspires you, who you can use as a model in some area of your life. For me, that person is Liz Strauss. While I was at BlogWorld & New Media Expo 2011 in Los Angeles this past November, I had […]
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, […]
Chris Garrett on How to Blog a Book or Book a Blog
My last post featured the first part of my interview with Chris Garrett, co-author of ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income, in which he discussed how to convert blog readers into book buyers using attraction, retention, conversion, and referrals. Today, in part two of the interview, which I conducted at […]
