Comments on: Reduce Social Media Overwhelm by Blogging Your Book http://writenonfictionnow.com/reduce-social-media-overwhelm-by-blogging-your-book/ A Challenge to Write and Publish Nonfiction All Year Long Thu, 23 May 2013 15:22:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Nina Amir http://writenonfictionnow.com/reduce-social-media-overwhelm-by-blogging-your-book/#comment-6535 Nina Amir Mon, 23 Apr 2012 05:42:32 +0000 http://writenonfictionnow.com/?p=1989#comment-6535 Hi Mark! Thanks for your comment. All your answers can be found at http://www.howtoblogabook.com. However, let me try to give you the short answer here. Blogging a book does not hinder sales. It builds your platform, which you need for both traditional and self-publshing. I suggest you leave a few things out that you then include in the published version to entice blog readers and publishers to purchase your book. Plus, when you edit the book, you will likely add more content. My book, How to Blog a Book, is now more than double the word count you find on the blog.

I blogged all but two chapters. I encourage people to blog most of their books. For fiction, I suppose you could leave off the ending…seems a cheap way to get people to buy a book, though.

YOu don’t take it down when done. You keep blogging on the topic, if you write nonfiction. For fiction, you can blog another book or blog on the topic. Or you can leave it up and go on to something else, but you’ll lose SEPR in the process, so you really need to keep blogging.

Nina

]]> By: Mark http://writenonfictionnow.com/reduce-social-media-overwhelm-by-blogging-your-book/#comment-6513 Mark Sat, 21 Apr 2012 12:18:23 +0000 http://writenonfictionnow.com/?p=1989#comment-6513 Excellent suggestion!

Some think that this would hinder sales, but I think blogging your book is a great way to gain a fanbase. Unless your blog is read by everyone, you’ll still be able to get sales once you publish. Reading an excerpt may even encourage a follower to buy the book.

Would you post the entire book? Leave off the ending? Take part or all of it down once you publish?

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