I advocate blogging a book rather than booking a blog. The reason why is simple: Not every blog deserves to become a book. Some blogs are just blogs; the content on them works well as posts but isn’t thought out well enough to become a book. A blogger who blogs a book, on the other […]
How to Successfully Self-Publish Your eBooked Blog
What happens if you don’t want to be discovered by a traditional publisher–if you’d rather book your own blog? Or what if you don’t get discovered by an agent or publisher and decide to become an indie publisher instead? Maybe you want to try your hand at producing an ebook… How do you make sure […]
How Finding Your Blog Niche Can Result in a Book Deal
If you want to know what happens when you simply find your niche as a blogger, read Smoky Trudeau Zeidel’s success story. She claims to have floundered around as a blogger. Then she moved to California and struck gold not only with her blog but with her blog-to-book deal—after just a few months of blogging […]
Why a Booked Blog Manuscript Needs Editing
Compiling a blogged book manuscript from all those posts you’ve previously written can be a big job—especially if you didn’t do a good job of organizing your blog with categories and tags. If you did, the manuscript may have come together pretty easily. However, as I mentioned in my last post, all you have now […]
Mine Your Categories for Blog Content Gold
If you have done a good job of mapping out your booked blog’s content, you should now have a table of contents for your book and a list of subject you will cover in each chapter. Now it’s time mine your blog for gold: existing blog posts that will provide the content for your book. […]
How to Map Out the Content for a Booked Blog
Let’s assume you’ve been blogging for a while—maybe even a long while. You’ve got a lot of posts to rummage through. This can feel quite overwhelming, maybe as overwhelming as writing a book from scratch. So, let’s chunk the process down. Just like with any book, you have to begin by planning out your book’s […]
Darren Rowse on Book Deals and Discovery in the Blogosphere
Like most recipients of blog-to-book deals, Darren Rowse landed his while simply blogging. However, he already had started thinking about writing a book—or, more specifically, turning his blog, ProBlogger, into a book. Then, he and his blog were discovered. That’s what many of us want—that email or phone call from an agent or publisher saying, […]
What NOT to Do When You Book a Blog
I highly recommend repurposing, or recycling your blog posts into a book. However, you can’t just slap you posts together and say, “Done!” Just this morning I was reading an announcement about a booked blog, one that was repurposed into a book, and thinking, “Wow. This guy has it all wrong.” The blogger and author, […]
Scary Mommy Lands Not-So-Scary Book Deal
Here’s another blog-to-book success story–one I really love! Blogger Jill Smokler, known as Scary Mommy (the name of her blog), has landed a book deal from Simon & Schuster. They will release her first book, Confessions of a Scary Mommy, next Mother’s Day. By simply blogging about her feelings about motherhood and her experiences as […]
Joel Friedlander’s Tips and Reasons for Booking a Blog
On Friday when I reviewed fellow blogger and book designer Joel Friedlander’s new book, A Self-Publisher’s Companion, Expert Advice for Authors Who Want to Publish, I promised I’d publish the four questions I asked him about his experience booking a blog. (If you don’t know what that means, please refer to this post.) You see, […]