It’s spring. As the natural world seems to give birth to new blooms, leaves and flowers, it’s time to give birth to a new book—to bring that idea inside you into the world on your blog. That’s right. This month we are focusing on blogging a book in 30 days. Call April National Book Blogging […]
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 […]
Choosing the Right Editor for Your Booked Blog
Once you have self-edited your booked blog manuscript, send it to a professional editor for another round of developing and polishing (or two or three). After all, that’s what professional editors are: developers and polishers of manuscripts. They make sure the story or content is fully developed—reader friendly and reader ready—and they polish the prose […]
Why a Booked Blog Manuscript Needs Editing
Compiling a blogged book manuscript from all those posts you’ve previously written can be a big job—especially if you didn’t do a good job of organizing your blog with categories and tags. If you did, the manuscript may have come together pretty easily. However, as I mentioned in my last post, all you have now […]
Two More Ways to Extract Book Content from Your Blog
I’ve written searching through your categories and using tags to find content for your booked blog manuscript. You also can find content in your existing blog post to repurpose into your book in other ways. Some of these require manual work, others more technical savvy. An old search method, of course, simply requires you put […]
Playing Tag to Find Content for Your Booked Blog
Yesterday I discussed how to use categories to find content for your booked blog. Another great way to find content when you are trying to repurpose your existing blog content into a book involves playing tag…metaphorically speaking, anyway. You use the tag feature of your blog to search out relevant content for your book. Tags […]
Mine Your Categories for Blog Content Gold
If you have done a good job of mapping out your booked blog’s content, you should now have a table of contents for your book and a list of subject you will cover in each chapter. Now it’s time mine your blog for gold: existing blog posts that will provide the content for your book. […]
How to Map Out the Content for a Booked Blog
Let’s assume you’ve been blogging for a while—maybe even a long while. You’ve got a lot of posts to rummage through. This can feel quite overwhelming, maybe as overwhelming as writing a book from scratch. So, let’s chunk the process down. Just like with any book, you have to begin by planning out your book’s […]
What kind of book could you produce from your blog content?
The majority of bloggers who have landed book deals didn’t set out to blog a book. They simply blogged their way to a book deal. And once they signed on the dotted line, they had to figure out how to book their blog—repurpose all those blog posts into a manuscript that would read like a […]
How to Read a Blogged Book
When I began this blog, I served as my own research and development project. I learned as I blogged my book. And, like any project going through research and development, I learned some things–sometimes after the fact. Most of what I learned later has been included in the printed book, How to Blog a Book: […]
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