How to Blog a Book: Write, Publish, and Promote Your Work One Post at a Time

Authors: Amir, Nina
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
BISAC/Subject: COM060130, LAN027000, LAN002000
ISBN: 9781599635422, Related ISBNs: 1599635429, 9781599635422
Classification: Non-Fiction
Number of pages: 168,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: How to Blog a Book teaches you how to create a blog book with a well-honed and uniquely angled subject and targeted posts—and how to build the audience necessary to convince agents and publishers to make your blog into a book.

Inside you'll find:

   • Basic information on how to set up your blog and the essential plug-ins and other options necessary to get the most out of each post
   • 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
   • Tools for driving traffic to your blog
   • Information on how to monetize an existing blog into a book or other types of products
   • Profiles with authors who received blog-to-book deals
Author Nina Amir explains how writing a book in cyberspace allows you to get your book written easily, while promoting it and building an author's platform. It's a fun, effective way to start writing, publishing, and promoting a book, one post at a time.
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