When I speak about how to blog a book, I always stress the importance of choosing a topic carefully. The audience tends to look at me like I think they are idiots. Of course, they are well aware that if you are going to blog a book–or write a book, for that matter–you must choose […]
Book Bloggers Write, But Do They Speak?
Writers tend to be introverts. They like to hide away in their offices with their computers and not talk to many people. Like most aspiring authors, book bloggers in many cases tend to be introverts, too. However, they’ve figured out that they can build that coveted author’s platform from the comfort of their lonely writer’s […]
Promotion: Getting Ready for the Launch
With my blogged book edited and designed and ready for printing, the forewords and blurbs all in, and everything basically in the hands of the publisher, you might think I’m just sitting around twiddling my thumbs. Not. I am gearing up for the busiest period in the life of my book yet. March and April […]
Promotion: How to Get Blurbs for Your Blogged Book
In addition to getting an expert to write a foreword for your blogged book, you will want to have authorities, authors, thought leaders, and other well-known people in your field and in related fields offer short reviews, called testimonials or blurbs, for the front and/or back cover of your book or the inside of your […]
Promotion: Getting A Foreword for Your Blogged Book
There are lots of ways to promote your book. Some of them happen long before you book is published as a print or ebook. Since my book is two or three months away from release, I’m currently gearing up for full-force promotion, which will begin in May. Typically, promotion begins about three months before release, […]
Last Stages: Interior and Cover Book Design
I am now in the last stages of my blog-to-book process. I recently got my first view of the interior design of the book, and several months ago I received a copy of the cover design. You might wonder if I had any say over either of these things. No. When I first saw the […]
6 Tips for Creating a Blogged Book Manuscript
I have to admit that when I began writing my blogged book and creating a manuscript I kinda winged it. I had my ideas about how it should be done, and I followed them. I wrote about them as I did so. However, I didn’t have a model to follow. No one was writing or […]
Editing and Revising a Blogged Book Before Publication
This month’s focus is on going from blog to book. After all, that’s what this blog is all about—helping you take your book idea and turn it into a book. However, I know some readers are also trying to book their blogs (repurpose posts into a book), and I hope to write about that this […]
Julien Smith on Differentiating Your Blog and Your Writing
As my last interview in January, a month focused on how to build a better blog so you and your blogged book could more easily get noticed by readers and publishers, I interviewed Julien Smith, a New York Times bestselling author of two books, Trust Agents: Using the Web to Build Influence, Improve Reputation, and […]
Jonathan Fields on Blog Traffic, Subscribers and Content
Yesterday I published a blog post on my other blog, Write Nonfiction NOW!, based on a very interesting interview I conducted with Jonathan Fields. In that post, Jonathan and I discussed what it takes to create a bestselling book: author’s platform, a business model, hard work, great release strategies, and a great book. (You can […]
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