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 […]
Three Steps to Writing an Overview for Your Book’s Business Plan
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
