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September 1, 2011 by Nina Amir 5 Comments

Four Ways to Promote Your Blogged Book

As you write your blogged book, or as you try to drive traffic to your blog so you land a book deal (and can book your blog), the Internet provides you with many effective promotion tools. Here are four tried and true methods for achieving your promotion  goals with online activity—activity most bloggers can do […]

Filed Under: Increasing Traffic, Publicizing Your Blog Tagged With: blog comments, blogging, ezine articles, Social Networking

August 24, 2011 by Nina Amir 1 Comment

Start Blogging a Short Book Today

A few months ago I self-published a short book based on 10 blog posts. In fact, I booked the blog posts — I repurposed the material I had already published on my blog. However, you can easily blog a short book starting today. This is a great idea if you already have a blog and […]

Filed Under: Blogging Short Books Tagged With: blogging, blogging a book, how to blog a book, writing a book

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 […]

Filed Under: Blogs Turned Into Books Tagged With: blog-to-book deals, blogging, blogging a book, getting a book contract

June 14, 2010 by Nina Amir 1 Comment

Content is King…So Get Writing!

In the blogging world, wisdom has it that content is king. That means, they ultimate way to drive people to your blog (or website) involves producing great copy. The more superb and useful content you produce, the more readers and traffic you will see coming to your blog or website. So it’s time to get […]

Filed Under: Increasing Traffic, Publicizing Your Blog Tagged With: blogging, content, traffic, writing

May 20, 2010 by Nina Amir Leave a Comment

Keeping Up with Your Blog When Using the Scheduling Option

As you’ve probably realized by now, scheduling your posts offers a definite advantage for the busy blogger or aspiring author. Now that you know how to schedule your blogs, however, you are at risk. You may walk away from your blog all week and pay no attention to what’s going on there. That’s a definite […]

Filed Under: Writing Posts/Chapters Tagged With: blogging, comments, Facebook, live posts, scheduled posts, scheduling, Twitter, Wordpress scheduling function

May 18, 2010 by Nina Amir 1 Comment

How to Schedule Your Blog Posts to Publish Later

As I mentioned in my last post, most blogging software offers you a way to write in advance and publish your posts on a schedule. This allows you to write your posts for a whole week or a month in one sitting (or two or three) and schedule them to publish whenever you want. For […]

Filed Under: Writing Posts/Chapters Tagged With: blogging, publish later, schedule a post, Wordpress, writing posts

May 8, 2010 by Nina Amir 1 Comment

Writing for the Internet: Be Conversational

Okay! Let’s start writing that book! Writing a blog tends to be a bit different than writing a “formal” book exactly because blogging lends itself to informality.  When blogging you can write as if composing an email to a friend. Blogs began as live journals, and many people considered them streams of consciousness—simply unedited thoughts […]

Filed Under: Be Conversational, Writing for the Internet, Writing Posts/Chapters Tagged With: blogging, posts, write for the Internet, writing

February 6, 2010 by ninaamir 2 Comments

Are You Willing to Approach Your Blogged Book Like a Business Person?

If you want to blog a book, though, I suggest you approach this endeavor like any other book project. This means putting aside your writer’s hat and putting on your business person’s hat before you begin your book project. This allows you to look at the big picture of both your blog and your book, […]

Filed Under: How to Decide if You Should Blog a Book, Who Should Blog a Book Tagged With: blogger, blogging, blogging a book, business, competition, market, readers, traditional publishing, value added

February 4, 2010 by ninaamir Leave a Comment

Who can Blog? Who can Blog a Book?

Anyone can blog or become a blogger. No one and nothing stops you from opening a free (Yes, free.) account with a site like WordPress.com or Blogger.com a beginning to blog. For the purposes of this blogged book, here’s the more important question: Who can blog a book? Not just anyone. To blog a whole […]

Filed Under: How to Decide if You Should Blog a Book, Who Should Blog a Book Tagged With: blog, blogging, blogging a book, expert status, manuscript, market, pages, value, who should blog, Who Should Blog a Book, words

February 3, 2010 by ninaamir 1 Comment

What is a Blog?

“Let’s start at the very beginning,” sings Julie Andrews in her role as “Maria” in The Sound of Music. “That’s a very good place to start.” I will take her lead and do the same. If I am going to teach you to blog a book while I provide an example of how to do […]

Filed Under: Terminology Tagged With: blog, blogger, blogging, live journal, post, stream of consciousness, web log, what is a blog

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