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 […]
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 […]
What the hoohah about e-books means for bloggers
I recently published several posts about indie e-book publishing here, here, and here. Seems lots of authors–mostly novelists–are making big money selling e-books cheaply (99 cents and $2.99). What’s that got to do with blogging a book? If you don’t get noticed by a publisher while blogging your book but you do gain readers, this […]
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 an E-Book
If you don’t want to go to much expense, you can simply convert your blogged book to an e-book yourself and sell it from your blog site or from a website. This doesn’t make it available on e-readers. It does, however, create an information product from which you can earn money. Creating this type of […]
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 […]
