I’ve been harping on how blogging a book builds platform and, by so doing, helps you get noticed by publishers and agents and sell more books. However, there’s another great outcome that can be achieved by blogging a book—or by simply blogging: you can boost your career and make more money. How? By being perceived [...]
When someone asks the question, “When is it too early for book promotion?” I answer emphatically, “Never!” My new book, How to Blog a Book, A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing and Promoting you Manuscript on the Internet One Post at a Time, won’t be out until June 2012 (Yes, the date has changed a bit…), [...]
It’s been several weeks since I learned that my agent had managed to land me a book contract for my book based on my blog, How to Blog a Book. The contract has been negotiated; I’m still waiting to receive the papers to sign and to get that not-as-large-as-I-envisioned advance. Want to know what happens [...]
I just returned from a Jewish bi-annual spiritual gathering. I found it so interesting that at least once or twice a day during the week I was in Southern California with this group of old and new friends I found myself discussing book ideas–theirs or my suggestions for books they could write. So many people [...]
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, [...]
A few weeks ago I fellow blogger and book designer Joel Friedlander if I might review his new book, A Self-Publisher’s Companion, Expert Advice for Authors Who Want to Publish. I had a special interest in doing so besides simply helping him out with some promotion on both this blog and my other blog, How [...]
Last night at my local California Writer’s Club branch we had a speaker who addressed the issue of writer’s block and how to move through it. A lot of writers, even famous ones, suffer from this malady. As I listened to him speak about the problem and his remedies, it struck me that blogging provides [...]
Anyone can simply begin blogging. Blogging a book, however, that’s a different story. If you want to blog a book, approach the endeavor like you would any other book project you might undertake. Here’s a list of 6 things you need to do before you start blogging your book. 1. Choose a topic: You can [...]
Before you begin writing your book, short book or booklet, blogged book, or e-book–any type of book–you must know why you are writing it. If you don’t know that, your reader won’t know why they should read it. A book should have a purpose, a reason to exist. Often this rises out of the message [...]
Some of you may not realize that this blog has a sister: Write Nonfiction in November. She only publishes posts for 30 days each year during the Write Nonfiction in November Challenge. That’s because Write Nonfiction in November (WNFIN) is not just a blog. Today marks the beginning of the fourth annual Write Nonfiction in [...]
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