Would you like to make money from your blog and blogged book? Today writer and journalist Jane Meggitt (@meggitt_jane) offers you a variety of options for how to monetize your site and the content you produce. People start blogging for all kinds of reasons. Whether it is to pursue a passion, provide advice, or establish […]
5 Research Tips to Help You Blog Your Book
Research can bog down any writer. Before you know it, instead of writing a blog post, you’re swimming in research…and so is your workspace. But research doesn’t have to be like that…and shouldn’t. Today writer and journalist Jane Meggitt (@meggitt_jane) provides tips on how to conduct, save, and use research as you blog your book. […]
12 Ways to Make Sure You Finish Blogging Your Book
As with any book you write, it’s easy to stop blogging your book in the middle. And many writers do. When you take on a challenge like National Book Blogging Month (NaBoBloMo), which asks you to write a book, albeit a short one, in just 30 days, the likelihood of quitting increases for a variety […]
How to Turn Your Courses Into (Blogged) Books (Part 2)
Imagine this scenario: You decide to monetize your knowledge and create an online course. You produce the videos, documentation and membership access. In addition to explaining the benefits of the course, your sales page features a picture of you and bio explaining that you are an authority on this particular topic. You mention that you […]
Write a Successful Book by Focusing Content on Benefit to Readers
How to Blog a Better Book: Lesson #5 To blog a successful book—one that attracts many readers and subscribers and later many book buyers (and maybe even a publisher)—you must conceive your idea with the “WIIFM Factor” in mind. The WIIFM factor represents the value your blog and book will add to readers’ lives or […]
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 […]
6 Tips for Creating a Blogged Book Manuscript
I have to admit that when I began writing my blogged book and creating a manuscript I kinda winged it. I had my ideas about how it should be done, and I followed them. I wrote about them as I did so. However, I didn’t have a model to follow. No one was writing or […]
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, […]
Start Blogging a Short Book Today
A few months ago I self-published a short book based on 10 blog posts. In fact, I booked the blog posts — I repurposed the material I had already published on my blog. However, you can easily blog a short book starting today. This is a great idea if you already have a blog and […]
Blog a Short Book…and Publish It…Fast!
Yesterday I sent off a short book to the printer created out of just 10 blog posts. Yes, just 10–and now it is a 78 page 4″ x 6″ book. Previously, I published it as an ebook. I’ll have it in my hands in just 10 days. Does that inspire you to blog a book? […]