Have you been wondering what up with me and my manuscript or how I’m doing getting How to Blog a Book discovered? Well, here’s the deal. I have to admit that once I was done blogging the book, I did not keep up with posting or promoting–at least for a while. I figured I had […]
A Blog Post a Day is a Book a Year…or More
I’ll be speaking at the San Francisco Writer’s Conference on Sunday. My topic: A Blog Post a Day is a Book a Year. And that’s the challenge to you, my readers. Starting tomorrow, I challenge you to begin writing a blog post a day and to have as your goal to finish blogging a book […]
How a Blog Might Help You Land a Book Deal
So many writers don’t want to blog. I don’t understand why, since I love blogging. I have five blogs. And some writers may not want to blog a book. Maybe you are reading this blog even though you don’t plan on blogging a book–but maybe you’d like to know how blogging will help you land […]
What to do if you didn’t plan to blog a book?
Most bloggers don’t set out to blog a book. They don’t even intend to write a book–ever. However, many bloggers discover after many, many posts on one topic that they have enough material–possibly too much material–for a book. Thus, they move out of Cyberspace and into the real world of physically published material. Or maybe […]
What’s Up with Blog-to-Book Deals?
Publisher’s Marketplace reports that 100 blog or Internet-related books were picked up last year. Most of them were not-so-worth-reading blog-to-book deals. According to Wall Street Journal’s Andy Jordan’s latest Tech Diary, publishers admit that bloggers with large readership allow them have a form of market research previously unavailable. If Internet readers flock to a blog, […]
6 Things You Need to Do Before You Blog a Book
Anyone can simply begin blogging. Blogging a book, however, that’s a different story. If you want to blog a book, approach the endeavor like you would any other book project you might undertake. Here’s a list of 6 things you need to do before you start blogging your book. 1. Choose a topic: You can […]
Learn First-Hand How to Go from Blog to Book
I discovered two superb posts about how one blogger’s blog became a book. Now, Gina Trapani, author of Lifehacker, didn’t set out to blog a book, but she offers some great information–not unlike the information I’ve offered–on how to blog a book. She also describes the process she went through to take make her blog […]
Posts in Message Board Lead to Two Book Deals
Here’s a great story about how a team of writers blogging together ended up with a book…and book deals. Actually, fantasy basketball posts on a message board led to a group of bloggers putting a book together. This led to two more books about basketball. You can read about Jessie Einhorn and his friends here. […]
Why You Need Passion to Succeed at Blogging Your Book
Most bloggers find themselves concerned with search engine optimization (SEO). Anyone writing for or on the Internet knows they want their writing easily found by search engines—and, therefore, by Internet users looking for the information in their blogs. However, Duane Forrester of Microsoft says most bloggers can use basic SEO skills and find some success […]
Using Contests to Generate Interest in Your Blog
Every once in a while my dance-related blog, My Son Can Dance, gets voted “best” in its category. This generates a bit of traffic to the blog. I also then get to put special icons or banners on my blog home page saying the blog is the best in its category. Kinda nice, huh? More […]
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