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February 13, 2014 by Nina Amir 1 Comment

Creative Uses of Ex-Wife’s Wedding Dress Ends in A Blogged Book Deal

Anyone who has anyone ever seen me do a presentation about how to blog a book has likely also heard me mention Kevin Cotter and his blog-to-book deal for 101 Uses for My Ex-Wife’s Wedding Dress. I have always been quite taken by this touching, story of a many who turned his anger and depression […]

Filed Under: Blogs Turned Into Books Tagged With: blog-to-book deal, booked blog, Kevin Cotter, success story, used wedding dresses, uses for wedding dress, wedding dress

August 30, 2012 by Nina Amir Leave a Comment

This 20-Year-Old’s Experiences Make Good Blog & Book Fodder

How to find a niche market for your blog and book

At the end of July I came across an interesting blog-to-book deal featured in The Huffington Post, and I quickly contacted the author. Again, it’s a booked blog, but a very cool idea from a very cool young lady. (When will bloggers start blogging books and make their lives easier when they land these book […]

Filed Under: Blogs Turned Into Books Tagged With: blog-to-book deal, booked blog, Emma Koenig, F*uck! I'm in My Twenties

July 26, 2012 by Nina Amir 7 Comments

How Finding Your Blog Niche Can Result in a Book Deal

If you want to know what happens when you simply find your niche as a blogger, read Smoky Trudeau Zeidel’s success story. She claims to have floundered around as a blogger. Then she moved to California and struck gold not only with her blog but with her blog-to-book deal—after just a few months of blogging […]

Filed Under: Blogs Turned Into Books, Booking a Blog (Repurposing Content into a Book) Tagged With: blog-to-book deal, booking a blog, finding a publisher, niche blogging, outdoor blog

July 5, 2012 by Nina Amir 4 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Blogs Turned Into Books, Landing an Agent or Traditional Publisher Tagged With: attracting a publisher, blog-to-book deal, fiction, serialize a book

June 14, 2012 by Nina Amir 12 Comments

Does Previously Published Blog Content Turn Away Publishers?

Can you blog a book or book a blog and get it sold to a traditional publisher?

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” […]

Filed Under: Landing an Agent or Traditional Publisher Tagged With: blog-to-book deal, blogged book, book contract, previoiusly published content, repurposing content

October 21, 2011 by Nina Amir 2 Comments

Blog-to-Book Releases This Month Officially at 2009 Numbers

My last post said projected that the number of blog-to-book releases were almost at the same rates as in 2009, the so-called height of the blog-to-book craze — about 48 per year. Well, I am happy to say that as of today, I can officially say that this month’s numbers (from what I know) bring […]

Filed Under: Blogs Turned Into Books, Why Blog a Book Tagged With: blog-to-book deal, blog-to-book releases, blog-to-book trend

October 19, 2011 by Nina Amir 1 Comment

Current Rate of Blog-to-Book Deals Reaching Past Heights

In my last post, I discussed the fact that many blogs are still getting turned into books–enough to constitute a continued trend, despite what some industry experts have claimed. In fact, I discovered that the figures for blog-to-book releases in October 2011 alone, at least from what I can tell, are equivalent to the height […]

Filed Under: Blogs Turned Into Books, Why Blog a Book Tagged With: blog-to-book deal, blog-to-book trend, book releases, publishing contracts

October 12, 2011 by Nina Amir 1 Comment

Get in on the Current Blog-to-Book Trend

No one has offered new statistics on blog-to-book deals since about 2009. In that year alone, between 50 and 60 bloggers landed traditional publishing deals. Supposedly, that was the height of the blog-to-book trend. Yet,  a consistent stream of blog-to-book deals has hit the market since then, and recently I’ve heard news of even more […]

Filed Under: Blogs Turned Into Books Tagged With: blog a book, blog-to-book deal, blog-to-book trend

August 28, 2011 by Nina Amir 1 Comment

How to Write a Book Proposal for Your Blogged Book

When a literary agent or an acquisition editor from a publishing company contacts you about making your blog into a book or publishing your blogged book, you want to be ready. Ready equates to having a book proposal written. Many aspiring authors and bloggers have no idea what goes into a traditional nonfiction book proposal. […]

Filed Under: Book Proposal, Landing an Agent or Traditional Publisher, The Proposal Tagged With: blog-to-book deal, blogging a book, book proposal

August 23, 2011 by Nina Amir Leave a Comment

Scary Mommy Lands Not-So-Scary Book Deal

Here’s another blog-to-book success story–one I really love! Blogger Jill Smokler, known as Scary Mommy (the name of her blog), has landed a book deal from Simon & Schuster. They will release her first book, Confessions of a Scary Mommy,   next Mother’s Day. By simply blogging about her feelings about motherhood and her experiences as […]

Filed Under: Blogs Turned Into Books Tagged With: blog-to-book deal, booking a blog, how to get noticed by a publisher, Scary Mommy

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