How to Blog a Book

Inspiring You to Build Visibility, Boost Authority and Become an Author Post by Post

Inspiring You to Build Visibility, Boost Authority and Become an Author Post by Post

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7 Tips for Turning Your Blog into a Book

As the blog-to-book trend continues on its upward curve, more and more bloggers see their blogs as gold mines filled with nuggets of content waiting to be extracted, refined and cast into books. Writers, on the other hand, historically have balked at becoming bloggers. Many aspiring and published authors turn to blogging simply because this […]

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Unique Index-Card Blog Lands Jessica Hagy Three Book Deals

Bloggers and book bloggers dream of landing even one book deal for the content they publish on their sites. In 2006, Jessica Hagy started a blog on a whim. She drew cheeky graphs and charts on 3 x 5 inch index cards at www.thisisindexed.com. Now her site houses close to 3,000 cards, and in 205 […]

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How to Turn Your Blog Into a Book-Production Machine

If you have a blog, you produce a lot of content every year—valuable content that could be used for more than just blog posts. Indeed, with the right focus and planning, your blog can become a book-production machine. Many busy writers, authors and entrepreneurs don’t feel they have time to write a book, especially when […]

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How to Test Market Your Book Idea with a Blog

I once heard Ellen Archer, president and publisher of Hyperion Books, say the advent of blogs provided publishers for the first time with a way to test market potential books. In other words, a successful blog equals a successfully test marketed book idea. Why? Publishers consider loyal blog readers and subscribers potential buyers of a […]

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3 Ways to Convert Blog Content Into a Word Doc

For those bloggers who would like to book a blog, or repurpose their posts into a book, turning blog content into a word-processing file can pose one of the largest challenges. You likely need a Microsoft Word file, since these are used by designers and to create a variety of ebook formats. Yet, it’s not […]

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How to Use Pressbooks to Go Blog-to-Book (Part 1)

Guest post by Carla King When I found out that PressBooks had a blog-to-book tool, frankly, I didn’t expect much, as similar tools I’ve tried have crashed or stalled in the middle of the process without so much as an error message. But because, after all, it is my job, I was obligated to take […]

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Woo Hoo! Books are Starting to Ship!

I can’t believe it! Copies of How to Blog a Book, the book, are starting to ship! Well, not everywhere as planned, but in some places. I’ve been checking Amazon.com ever hour since Saturday morning…nothing. No status change. However, How to Blog a Book is now shipping from the Writer’s Digest Shop! (Their system is […]

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Two More Ways to Extract Book Content from Your Blog

I’ve written searching through your categories and using tags to find content for your booked blog manuscript. You also can find content in your existing blog post to repurpose into your book in other ways. Some of these require manual work, others more technical savvy. An old search method, of course, simply requires you put […]

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