How to Blog a Book

January 8, 2011 by Nina Amir 2 Comments

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. […]

January 4, 2011 by Nina Amir 3 Comments

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 […]

December 29, 2010 by Nina Amir 1 Comment

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 […]

December 17, 2010 by Nina Amir 1 Comment

Turning Your Blog Into a Book

Have you finished blogging a book? If so, there are lots of programs available these days that can turn your blog into a book. Many of them, however, produce a book that looks exactly like your blog. In other words, each page looks like a blog post. Personally, that’s not what I want my physical […]

December 16, 2010 by Nina Amir Leave a Comment

Authenticity Leads to Great Content and SEO

Here’s the thing about search engine optimization (SEO): It really comes down to great content. You can search out the best keywords for your topic and fill your content with those words, but at a certain point it becomes obvious to the search engines what you are doing. They don’t like that tactic. Yes, keywords […]

December 9, 2010 by Nina Amir 6 Comments

Who is Blogging a Book and About What?

If you are blogging a book, I want to know about it. Leave a comment here and tell me who you are, what you are blogging a book about, and your blog address. In this way others can go read your blog, too. Also, let me know how many people (if any) are reading your […]

December 7, 2010 by Nina Amir Leave a Comment

Jezebel.com Sells Two Books to Grand Central

Today I have two more examples of blog-to-book deals that I don’t understand, but I don’t need to. Obviously, these blogs struck a chord with enough readers to catch a publisher’s eye. And off to press they go. Should the rest of us be so lucky. Gawker Media’s website, Jezebel.com, recently sold two books to […]

December 3, 2010 by Nina Amir 1 Comment

Free Blogs Turned into Books

I could tell you about several blogs turned into books, but Bea J. Ledesma of The Phillipine Star did such a good job of it in this article, I’ll just let you read her post. She offers some great examples of free blogs, rather than hosted blogs, turned into successful books. <<Previous Post Next Post>>

December 2, 2010 by Nina Amir 2 Comments

Content is King and Key

I’ve heard it said that content is king. I’ve also heard it said that content is key. The two sentences mean the same thing. If you want to produce a blog people will read–one that will generate traffic and get the attention of a publisher sometime down the road (or simply gain you readers when […]

October 7, 2010 by Nina Amir 3 Comments

The Quickest and Easiest Way to Write a Book: Blog It!

Blogging provides one of the fastest and easiest ways to write a book today. In just months you can have a complete manuscript ready for editing and design if you are diligent about writing and publishing your posts. I know this is true because I completed the bulk of a manuscript in just five months; […]