Do you think your book idea would make a great television series? Or have you dreamed of writing a sitcom? Go ahead and blog it into existence. I have to admit that I have little knowledge of the television industry or even about script writing. However, a while ago I had a conversation with someone […]
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 […]
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 […]
Chris Garrett on How to Blog a Book or Book a Blog
My last post featured the first part of my interview with Chris Garrett, co-author of ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income, in which he discussed how to convert blog readers into book buyers using attraction, retention, conversion, and referrals. Today, in part two of the interview, which I conducted at […]
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, […]
Turn a Series of Blog Posts into a Short Book
I often teach a workshop called “How to Write a (Short) Book Fast.” As part of this workshop, I discussing booking a series of blog posts, which means repurposing 10 or 15 posts you’ve written in succession on the same topic. I did this with my book, 10 Days and 10 Ways to Your Best […]
10 Things to Do While Waiting for Your Blog to Be Discovered
Let’s say you’ve finished blogging your book. Or not. Maybe you are still blogging your book. In either case, you are still waiting to be discovered. What should you do while you wait? Here are 10 things to keep you occupied and attract attention to your blog at the same time. Tweet about the subject […]
What to do if you didn’t plan to blog a book?
Most bloggers don’t set out to blog a book. They don’t even intend to write a book–ever. However, many bloggers discover after many, many posts on one topic that they have enough material–possibly too much material–for a book. Thus, they move out of Cyberspace and into the real world of physically published material. Or maybe […]
