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February 9, 2016 by Nina Amir 8 Comments

2 Steps to a Market Analysis for Your Book

blogged book market analysis

If you want to successfully blog and publish a book, you must know your readers. This step in the book blogging process, called a Market Analysis, is essential to your success and to your book’s and blog’s business plan. Without it, you might produce work that attracts totally different readers than you expect or no […]

Filed Under: Building a Better Blog, How to Begin Blogging a Book, Markets Tagged With: book proposal, busines plan for a book, ideal reader, market analysis, proposal process, target market

February 2, 2016 by Nina Amir 5 Comments

Three Steps to Writing an Overview for Your Book’s Business Plan

get clear about your book idea before you write

When you begin your blogged book—or any book—an overview of the entire book idea helps you get focus and clarity on the project. When you are clear about your topic, the angle you from which you will approach it, and how you will provide benefits to a particular audience, you can determine if the project […]

Filed Under: How to Begin Blogging a Book Tagged With: author training process, benefits, book proposal, business plan, Overview, pitch, proposal process, summary

August 12, 2014 by Nina Amir Leave a Comment

How to Craft a Book Idea that Sells

Most aspiring authors believe their ideas are unique and readers absolutely need to read their books. Like these writers, you may feel convinced your book idea is new, fresh, timely, different, and essential. It’s great to feel passionate, enthusiastic and confident when the proverbial light bulb goes off, but those feelings—and your conviction—simply aren’t enough […]

Filed Under: How to Begin Blogging a Book Tagged With: book proposal, competitive analysis, how to blog a book, how to write a book, marketable book

July 31, 2014 by Nina Amir 3 Comments

How to Impress an Agent or Editor with Your Platform

When you submit your book proposal to literary agents or publisher, convince these publishing professionals your blogged book constitutes a viable product worthy of publication by showing them your blog analytics. Although your book idea is, of course, important, how well received it has been over time—how many readers or many fans it has garnered—provides […]

Filed Under: Book Proposal, Landing an Agent or Traditional Publisher Tagged With: author platform, blog statistics, book proposal, platform

July 29, 2014 by Nina Amir Leave a Comment

6 Things You Can Do to Make Your Book Proposal Stand Out

When an agent or acquisitions editor from a publishing house responds affirmatively to your query letter, you better be ready to go to the next stage of the publishing process. You need to have a book proposal written, edited and ready for submission upon request. I’ve written extensively about how to write a book proposal, […]

Filed Under: Book Proposal, Landing an Agent or Traditional Publisher Tagged With: agents, book proposal, traditional publishing

April 10, 2014 by Nina Amir Leave a Comment

8 Questions to Help Produce and Evaluate a Business Plan for Your Blogged Book

The best way to start any book project, blogged or written some other way, is with a plan. In How to Blog a Book, I suggested you create a business plan for your book prior to writing a word and that you do this by going through what I called the “proposal process.” This entails […]

Filed Under: How to Begin Blogging a Book, National Book Blogging Month, The Proposal Tagged With: author training process, book proposal, business plan for a book, proposal process

May 28, 2013 by Nina Amir Leave a Comment

How to Write a Book Proposal for Your Blogged Book

If you want to land a traditional publishing deal, you will need a book proposal. This remains true even if your blogged book gets discovered by an agent or publisher. A book proposal serves as a business plan for a book, and publishers rely on it to determine if your book is marketable and if […]

Filed Under: Traditionally Publish Your Book, What to Do When You Complete Your Blogged Book Tagged With: book proposal, business plan for a book, fiction book proposal, how to get traditionally published, nonfiction book proposal

May 17, 2012 by Nina Amir 1 Comment

The Best Business Plan for a Blogged Book (or Any Book)

To conclude this series on building a business around your book, I’d like to write about business plans. Now, I’m not a great one to spout off about business plans, since my business hasn’t had one until recently–and it’s not really quite done yet, if I’m going to be totally honest. (But I’m working on […]

Filed Under: Book Proposal, Build a Business Around Your Book, The Proposal Tagged With: book proposal, book proposal process, business plan, writing a book proposal

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

March 3, 2011 by Nina Amir 1 Comment

What’s Up with How to Blog a Book?

Have you been wondering what up with me and my manuscript or how I’m doing getting How to Blog a Book discovered? Well, here’s the deal. I have to admit that once I was done blogging the book, I did not keep up with posting or promoting–at least for a while. I figured I had […]

Filed Under: News About How to Blog a Book Tagged With: agent, book proposal, how to blog a book, publisher

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