Guest post by Carla King You’ve got your manuscript, so now what? Before committing to big distribution, try these quick and easy ways to publish while you finesse your book with great editing and design. You won’t even need to buy an ISBN number. If you’re not quite ready for prime time, beta publishing is […]
The Print-on-Demand Process Explained
If you wan to create a publishing company of your own to produce your blogged book, print quality, inexpensive books but don’t want to worry about storing or distributing inventory, you probably don’t want to choose offset printing. You may want to join the ranks of so many authors today who use print-on-demand (POD) technology […]
Is Subsidy Publishing the Same as Self-Publishing?
If I told you to publish your blogged book with a vanity publisher you’d probably tell me I was crazy. Yet, many of you will consider (or may be considering) doing just that and will call it self-publishing. About now you’re probably scratching your head and trying to figure out what the heck I’m talking […]
Don’t Just Blog a Book–Publish a Blogged Book in November
Lot’s of books get written in November–at least the first drafts. That’s why I declared November National Writing Month in 2009. Fiction writers produce novels during National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) and nonfiction writers produce a variety of books during National Nonfiction Writing Month (NaNonFiWriMo) as they take the Write Nonfiction in November challenge. It’s […]
Blurb Offers Ipad Users a Way to Go Blog-to-Book
More and more ways to go literally from blog to book seem to appear all the time. These technologies allow you to get your blog content–your blogged book–off your blog and into a book format. Blurb, a San Francisco-based creative publishing and marketing platform, is the latest to enter the field by giving Ipad users […]
Publishing Options for Your Booked Blog
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 […]
Turning Your Blog Into a Book
Have you finished blogging a book? If so, there are lots of programs available these days that can turn your blog into a book. Many of them, however, produce a book that looks exactly like your blog. In other words, each page looks like a blog post. Personally, that’s not what I want my physical […]
Turning Your Blogged Book Into a POD book
If you want to self-publish your blogged book, you can choose several methods for turning the blog into an actual book. First, however, you must have a manuscript. As I mentioned previously, the easiest way to blog a book and end up with a manuscript entails writing your posts in Microsoft Word and then copying […]
