After you have your ideas organized into a preliminary outline for your book, you should step back and do a little market research. After all, you don’t want to go to the effort of writing a book that has no prayer of selling in the marketplace. Fortunately, finding out how you can differentiate your book […]
Blog Your Book: Step 2 – Brainstorm and Organize Ideas
After you’ve gone through your old writings and come up with some possible ideas for a book topic, it’s time to start fleshing out the information to see if you’ve really got enough there for an entire book. Sometimes you come up with a great idea, but it’s really just enough for an article, not […]
Blog Your Book: Step 1- Find a Problem to Solve
Over the years, I’ve talked to a lot of people who want to write a book, but they haven’t been able to get started because they can’t figure out what to write about. Fortunately, as a blogger, you have a big advantage: the community you’ve built around your blog. That may include people who comment […]
Blog Your Book: It’s Not As Hard As You Think
As a blogger, you’re writing all the time. (Or you should be.) But even productive bloggers who crank out countless blog posts every week seem to get nervous about the idea of writing a book. For many bloggers, the idea of writing a “real” book seems intimidating. By putting your writing into book form, it […]
How to Make Money with a Blog
In the old movie, “The Secret of Nimh,” one of the animated characters is a crow named Jeremy. Throughout the movie, he is excited by anything shiny and pretty. “Ooh! oh-oh-oooh! A sparkly!” A lot of writers are like Jeremy. Including me. My inquisitive nature could be disdainfully referred to as a lack of focus. […]