One of the thing writers do really well is produce content–especially bloggers, who produce content all the time. That’s a great thing in today’s online market, because the best way to promote blogged books comes down to producing great content and lots of it–and placing it on the Internet. By strategically using content in cyberspace, […]
How to Tie General Blog Posts to Your Blogged Book
I often get asked a question about how to tie blog posts in general into a blogged book you might be writing. Whether you are writing a blogged book, a printed book or an e-book, your blog provides a great way to generate interest in that book. Each post offers one more opportunity to drive […]
How to Blog a Book Gets Disovered and Lands a Book Deal!
As you may know, the whole idea behind this blog revolves around creating a strong and unique blogged book idea with a large or niche market, writing great and consistent posts, and promoting your blog well so you either: get discovered while blogging your book, build enough platform to become attractive to an agent, an […]
Use Your Expertise to Blog a Short Book
In my last post I told you how I created a short book out of 10 blog posts and published it…FAST! I promised I’d give you some tips on how to get going on a similar project of your own. Here’s how you start: What do you know? Are you an expert on getting your […]
Joel Friedlander’s Tips and Reasons for Booking a Blog
On Friday when I reviewed fellow blogger and book designer Joel Friedlander’s new book, A Self-Publisher’s Companion, Expert Advice for Authors Who Want to Publish, I promised I’d publish the four questions I asked him about his experience booking a blog. (If you don’t know what that means, please refer to this post.) You see, […]
New How to Blog a Book Audio Program Now Available!
I’d like to take a commercial break to announce the newest in my line of How to Blog a Book Products: The How to Blog a Book Audio Course. It’s a short course — 1.5 hours — that gives you the nitty gritty details on how to get started blogging your book. Plus, it comes […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]