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April 26, 2022 by Nina Amir Leave a Comment

The Pros and Cons of Turning Your Blog Into a Book

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Should you or shouldn’t you turn your blog into a book? Only you can answer that question. In today’s post, Beth Bauer (@JourneyofBethB), offers some pros and cons to help you decide. Many successful bloggers have gone on to turn their blogs into books. For example, Bryan Collins produced The Art of Writing a Non-Fiction Book, […]

Filed Under: How to Decide if You Should Blog a Book Tagged With: blog, blog a book, blogger, blogging, blogging a book, booked blog, booking a blog, cons, pros, turn blog into a book

April 2, 2019 by Nina Amir 1 Comment

How to Use Scrivener to Track Your Blog-a-Book Progress

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Many writers and bloggers use Scrivener to help them manage their projects—and even more would like to learn how to do so. I’ve written about Scrivener several times and how I’ve used it to help with my continued blogging and blog-to-book projects. But my knowledge of how to use the program is limited. That’s why […]

Filed Under: Success Strategies, Writing Posts/Chapters Tagged With: blog content, blog-to-book, blogging a book, book to blog, booking a blog, Metadata, Scrivener

March 19, 2019 by Nina Amir 4 Comments

Create Blog-Book Synergy to Reduce Content Creation Stress

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Many aspiring authors worry about starting a blog. They fear they won’t have the time to produce a book manuscript while trying to produce consistent blog content. However, the blog-a-book and book-a-blog strategies provide an efficient way to write and publish books—and keep up with blog content schedules. Today, digital nomad and full-time writer and […]

Filed Under: Success Strategies Tagged With: blog content, blog-to-book, blogging a book, book to blog, booking a blog, content marketing, hybrid, travel guides

May 5, 2015 by Nina Amir Leave a Comment

How to Book a Blog Using Scrivener

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I use Scrivener to write most of my blog posts. Why? Because Scrivener allows me easily to file them in folders and later, if I want, turn those folders into books. However, before I used Scrivener, my posts were all written in Word or directly into WordPress. That made it hard to create a manuscript […]

Filed Under: Booking a Blog (Repurposing Content into a Book) Tagged With: blogging, blogging a book, booking a blog, Scrivener

December 9, 2014 by Nina Amir 2 Comments

Offer Another Book to Your Readers—by Blogging it For Free

By D.I. (David) Telbat (@DITelbat) There you are, an author hanging off a cliff. The gorge below threatens to swallow you, but still, you lean farther out, offering yet another tantalizing novel to your fans. They reach for your inspired works as if their lives depend on your very words. If only you had more […]

Filed Under: Blogging Short Books, How to Begin Blogging a Book Tagged With: booking a blog

September 23, 2014 by Nina Amir 20 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Booking a Blog (Repurposing Content into a Book) Tagged With: book a blog, booking a blog

August 7, 2014 by Nina Amir 1 Comment

The “Queen of Snark” on Booking Blogs and Promoting Books

I met Rachel Thompson not long after the release of her second book. She was teaching classes on how to go blog-to-book on Triberr.com. Since then, she’s written and published a third successful book. Although she hasn’t blogged a book, she knows how to book a blog and how to successfully self-publish a book. As […]

Filed Under: Booking a Blog (Repurposing Content into a Book), Building a Better Blog Tagged With: book promotion, booking a blog

May 27, 2014 by Nina Amir 22 Comments

3+ Reasons I’ve Started Using Scrivener as a Blogging Tool

For a while now I’ve been toying around with the idea of using Scrivener as a writing tool. I hadn’t seriously considered using it for blogging, except I was interesting in finding out if it could become a blog-to-book tool. If it could import posts form WordPress, I figured it might be quite useful. I […]

Filed Under: Booking a Blog (Repurposing Content into a Book), Selfpublish Your Blogged Book, Writing Posts/Chapters Tagged With: blogging a book, booking a blog, compiling posts, ebooks, Scrivener, Scrivener for bloggers

December 19, 2013 by Nina Amir 1 Comment

How to Use Pressbooks to Go Blog-to-Book (Part 2)

 Guest post by Carla King   This is the second part of Carla King’s post on how to use Pressbooks.com to go blog-to-book. To read part one, click here. Add Front and Back Matter You’ll want to compose an introduction, copyright page, acknowledgements, and an about the author page. (Don’t forget to provide links to […]

Filed Under: Selfpublish Your Blogged Book, What to Do When You Complete Your Blogged Book Tagged With: blog-to-book, blogging a book, book formatting, booking a blog, ebook formatting, Pressbooks, self-publishing

December 27, 2012 by Nina Amir 1 Comment

Traditionally Published Author Self-Publishes a Booked Blog

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Although this blog focuses a fair amount of attention on blogging books to get “discovered” by literary agents and acquisitions editors at traditional publishing houses, there’s just as much value in blogging a book—or simply blogging—to create the audience you need to produce a successful self-published book. No one knows this better than someone who […]

Filed Under: Blogs Turned Into Books, Booking a Blog (Repurposing Content into a Book) Tagged With: booking a blog, Scott Berkun, self-published blogs, self-publishing

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