The New Year arrived. You created a list of goals. “Blog a book” is first on your list. Great! Now what? Some writers or bloggers would just begin blogging their book without a second thought. That’s not the best way to succeed, however. Blogging a book allows you to write your book quickly and easily […]
11 Tips for Starting Your (Blogged) Book Project
You want to blog a book, but you struggle to get started. You aren’t alone. Many wanna-be writers don’t ever begin on their manuscripts. It’s worse for wanna-be bloggers and book bloggers because they need to start a blog as well as a book. The blog technology alone, although not too complicated, can stop non-techie […]
Why You MUST Publish Posts Often and Consistently
For your blog to succeed—to gain traction on the Internet or in search engines and to gather a loyal following of readers, you must publish posts often and consistently. Don’t blog if you want an easy or fast way to make money, gain expert status, or land a book deal. Blogging takes patience and hard […]
5 Steps to a Blogged-Book Plan
I know few writers who feel they have enough time to work on their books. Most tell me they want to be more effective and productive because they need to promote their books as well as write them. That’s why I developed the blog-a-book strategy. It allows you to write, publish and promote a book […]
How to Conduct a Market Analysis for a Blog or Book
Every time I speak about the need for a business plan for a book or blog—or a blogged book—someone asks me the same question: How do you find the market for your book and analyze it? The short answer is: Google it. But there’s more to it than that. First, understand that you need to […]
Blog a Romance or Horror Novel
You might assume that only nonfiction writers blog books. Not true. Novelists also blog books. They claim it makes them better writers and helps them produce more compelling manuscripts. And they blog novels in a variety of genres, including romance and horror readers, and benefit in the process. So take the hot men and sexy […]
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 […]
Passion, Subject Knowledge, Self-Knowledge, and Blogging Books
Blogging is not an endeavor to be entered into lightly if you want to succeed at this “job.” And if you want to blog a book (or book a blog) or build a business around your blog, you need to choose the right subject from your first post. In this guest post, Frank Daley (@TheFrankDaley) […]
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 […]
An 8-Point Blog-a-Book Checklist
I’ve been touting the benefits of blogging a book for five years. I’ve written about the process over and over again here and on other sites. I even revised and expanded How to Blog a Book. And I’ve blogged several more books. Hopefully, you’ve decided to blog your book. I realize that, even though the […]
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