If you have a blog, you produce a lot of content every year—valuable content that could be used for more than just blog posts. Indeed, with the right focus and planning, your blog can become a book-production machine. Many busy writers, authors and entrepreneurs don’t feel they have time to write a book, especially when […]
8 Time-Management Tips for Bloggers
I manage a lot of blogs—four to be exact—and I guest blog for other sites as well. It’s no wonder, therefore, that I often get asked, “How do you get it all done?” Although I don’t consider myself the most effective time manager, I can offer you a few tips on how to make your […]
10 Quick and Easy Ways to Test, Publish and Sell Your Book
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 […]
Think Short to Finally Get that Book Blogged
Aspiring authors and bloggers often tell me they don’t know how to get started blogging their books. They have ideas and they think they know what content they want to include, but they hit a stumbling block when it comes to producing a detailed outline or deciding upon a structure. They can’t brainstorm and organize […]
How to Test Market Your Book Idea with a Blog
I once heard Ellen Archer, president and publisher of Hyperion Books, say the advent of blogs provided publishers for the first time with a way to test market potential books. In other words, a successful blog equals a successfully test marketed book idea. Why? Publishers consider loyal blog readers and subscribers potential buyers of a […]
11 Ways to Use Your Blog to Become an Expert…FAST!
If you write nonfiction, or if you have the goal of building a business around your book(s) or your blog, you want to develop expert status—assuming you don’t have it already. A blog provides the perfect vehicle for creating authority in your subject area or industry, and this helps you get noticed as well as […]
7 Reasons to Blog a Short Book…FAST!
Most of the time I tell those who want to blog books to write long. But once your full-length book is complete, of if you’ve got an established blog, there are many reasons to write short. By this I mean blog short books. Most people think a book has to be long and must take […]
24 Ways to Keep Your Blog Alive After You Stop Blogging Your Book
You’ve spent the last six to nine months—maybe more—blogging your book, and you’re manuscript finally is complete. Now what? How will you keep your blog alive now that that you don’t have a book to write post by post? Good question…and one you should have answered before you began blogging. When you begin blogging a […]
How to Blog a Completed Manuscript
You’ve already written your book, but you want to test the market or build an author platform before release by blogging it. How do you take your completed manuscript and break it down into 300- to 500-word pieces—blog posts—when you wrote it to flow as one continuous chapter after another? Good question. I continue to […]
3 Ways to Convert Blog Content Into a Word Doc
For those bloggers who would like to book a blog, or repurpose their posts into a book, turning blog content into a word-processing file can pose one of the largest challenges. You likely need a Microsoft Word file, since these are used by designers and to create a variety of ebook formats. Yet, it’s not […]
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