I read How to Blog a Book Revised and Expanded Edition: Write, Publish, and Promote Your Work One Post at a Time
, in exchange for honest review from iRead Book Tours.About the book: from media kit
Transform Your Blog into a Book!The world of blogging is rapidly changing, but it remains one of the most efficient ways to write and share your work with an eager audience. But how do you purposefully hone your blog content into a uniquely positioned book that will be noticed by an agent or a publisher?
How to Blog a Book Revised and Expanded Edition is a completely updated guide to writing and publishing a saleable book based on a blog. Expert author and blogger Nina Amir guides you through the process of developing targeted blog content that will increase your chances of publication and maximize your visibility as an author.
In this revised edition you’ll find:
• The latest information on how to set up, maintain, and optimize a blog
• Steps for writing a book easily from scratch using blog posts
• Advice on how to write blog posts
• Tips on gaining visibility and promoting your work both online and off
• Current tools for driving traffic to your blog
• Extensive information on how to monetize your existing blog content into a book or other products
• Profiles with authors who received blog-to-book deals, including four new “from blog to book” success stories
Author Bio:
Nina Amir, the bestselling author of How to Blog a Book and The Author Training Manual, is a speaker, a blogger, and an author, book, and blog-to-book coach.
Known as the Inspiration to Creation Coach, she helps creative people combine their passion and purpose so they move from idea to inspired action and positively and meaningfully impact the world as writers, bloggers, authorpreneurs, and blogpreneurs.
Some of Nina’s clients have sold 300,000+ copies of their books, landed deals with major publishing houses and created thriving businesses around their books. She is the founder of National Nonfiction Writing Month, aka the Write Nonfiction in November Challenge, and the Nonfiction Writers’ University.
As a hybrid author she has published 15 books and had as many as four books on the Amazon Top 100 list at the same time.
My Review:
The book is about turning your blog into a book. I have heard of blogs into books before and this was an interesting book to read. Of course, the first step is having great content, maybe a variety of content. The first part of the book discusses what a blog is, for those, who don't know. The book also goes into the basics of who can write a blog and who can write a book. Please note: just because you publish a book or a blog, doesn't mean you will rake in the money overnight. I received a .10 cent check from Audible before. You will have to promote and market your book to get more people to support you as a writer and to buy your books.
We skip ahead to chapter 4, where it discusses writing a business plan for your book. You need to write down a pro forma table of contents; synopses of each chapter; and a general book overview. You also need to consider where to market and promote your book. Don't forget to set up a social media account(s) for yourself or your books. Tip from me: clean up your social media before publishing.
I had a friend, who started a great charity to help military veterans. I wanted to write about him and his charity for an assignment for school. I always ask for social media links when I want to interview someone. When I checked his social media, his Twitter feed was filled with links to pornography and retweets from porn stars. I did not feel right, writing about his charity, when I can't link his social media on my blog.
I also recommend if you are doing a kindle book, hyperlink your chapter titles into your table of contents. This means every title and subtitle, needs to be in heading format (h1, h2, h3, so forth). So when you do an automatic table of contents, all the headings will show up in order. This also helps if you reading a kindle book, you can jump to the chapters needed.
The author also discusses pages. You will need to consider how long do you want your book to be. From experience, some sites, such as Amazon, recommends a price based on page counts. Some book formats are not available until you reach a certain page count.
Finally, I am going to discuss the section on costs. You may need photos, web hosting, audio narration for audio books, art work, internet connection, and permission to use certain content.
You can purchase the book on Amazon, using the link above.
Giveaway
Enter to win a copy of How to Blog a Book. 7 winners will be chosen. One winner will also win a $25 dollar Amazon gift card and another winner will win a free course from the Non-fiction Writers University. (Open to US and Canada). Perfect Chaos is not responsible for prize fulfillment.
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