A reverend and a rabbi start a blog…stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Actually, Baptist minister Michael Smith and Jewish rabbi Rami M. Shapiro actually did start a blog called Mount and Mountain. The blog recorded a long-running dialogue between Mike and Rami in which the pair interpreted, argued about, and interrogated two […]
How to Blog a Finished Novel and Land a Traditional Contract
The two most common questions I hear from fiction writers considering blogging books are: Should I blog full chapters? Should I blog my completed novel? To the first question, I typically answer, no. If you blog full chapters, you are just serializing your novel, not blogging it. Blogging a book involves publishing it in post-sized […]
Rachel Barenblat Speaks About Blogging and Booking Poetry
This month on How to Blog a Book, I’ll be featuring blog-to-books—both traditionally published and self-published. In many cases (hopefully all), I will offer you unique insight into the bloggers, their process and how they went from blog to book. I begin the month with an interview with a blogger I’ve followed for quite some […]
Should You Use a Pen Name When You Blog a Book (or Blog)?
Many aspiring authors and bloggers put off starting their projects while contemplating one big issue: using their real name on their work. The debate whether or not to use a pseudonym or a pen name. To me, this issue comes down to fear. Sometimes the fear has sound basis. Sometimes not. These are things to […]
What Blogging Platform Should You Use for Your Blogged Book?
You can choose from a variety of blogging platforms when you begin blogging your book. I write a lot about using WordPress.org. For that reason, often get asked if WordPress is the only or the best blogging platform to use when you blog a book. Most professional bloggers I know and have encountered use WordPress. […]
How to Blog a Book of Poetry
Recently, I’ve received a lot of questions from poets who would like to blog books of poetry. Since publishing books of poetry traditionally can prove very difficult (Sorry, if that news is a shock to you.), I think blogging a poetry book to build a large enough fan base for your work via a blog […]
10 Steps for Blogging a Memoir
Many writers would like to blog a memoir. It’s not that different than blogging a novel, which I wrote about in a recent post, except, of course, you are blogging or writing about your own experiences. That makes your book as work of nonfiction rather than fiction. That said, it must read like fiction to […]
Does Previously Published Blog Content Turn Away Publishers?
I get asked the same question over and over again. It relates to blogged books, previously published work and traditional publishers. Many aspiring authors considering blogging books feel concern over publishing their the work they intend to include in a book on their blogs. They feel sure a publisher will then consider it “previously published” […]
Do Your Blogged Book Blog Posts Need Photos?
Not every page in a book includes a photo, but in the online world, photos do help increase reader engagement. They also may gain you a few readers from other sites, such as Facebook, Pinterest and Google Plus, which rely heavily on images to attract attention. Additionally, when you add a photo to your WordPress […]
Simple Ways to Add a “Call to Action” to Blog Posts
Today’s guest post is written by my colleague, Dana Lynn Smith, The Savvy Book Marketer. Getting traffic to your blog can be a challenge, so it’s important to keep people on your site and engaged for as long as possible, and encourage them to come back again. Think about this – after someone reads a […]
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