"How to Get a Six Figure Book Deal From Your Blog" by Penelope Trunk has some great tips on how get published via your blog.
Here's my tip: don't sweat book publication. Books come and go, but your blog can be forever. :-)
What's your opinion on the blog to book process? If you're blogging for publication, drop your URL into the Comments so we can all cheer you on.
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If you're procrastinating on a book, consider a blook - a book which starts life as a blog.
"Meet blook, son of blog, on the new frontier of publishing" reports:
The trend certainly makes life easier for the author. It’s very daunting to embark on a 100,000 word novel, but much less frightening to write 500 words a day on your blog. You might even become the next Judith O’Reilly, who began blogging as Wife in the North after leaving her job as education correspondent of this very newspaper to move to Northumberland with her family. Six weeks later she had a £70,000 publishing deal.My ebook "Writing Success with Blogs by Angela Booth" helps you to get started promoting your writing with a blog - or more than one blog.Much the same happened to Kristin Espinasse, who began a web diary account of her struggle to learn French while living in the south of France with her French husband and children (www.french-word-a-day.typepad.com). The resulting book, Words in French Life, has been nominated for the Blookers, where it will be competing against the diary of an American machinegunner in Iraq (www.cbftw.blogspot.com) and a woman’s account of her battle to overcome infertility (www.tertia.org).
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I love historical novels, especially medieval histories. in Labyrinth the distant past touches on the present, with two stories running side by side. I've only read 100 pages, and can't wait to get back to it, it's a real page-turner.
Advice to writers from Kate Mosse
Kate Mosse has an entire section of her site devoted to advice to writers - read it, it's sound and sensible, and if you take advice like this to heart your writing will be everything you wish it to be:
3. Practice The playwright Joe Orton wrote brilliant texts full of life and colour. It seemed to come naturally from his exuberant personality. But like most people who appear to make things look easy, he actually set himself writing homework to make his descriptions more vivid.Great advice, and a book I'm enjoying - you can't ask for more than that. :-)
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If you've read "The Secret" and still don't have the life of your dreams, read "I've Got The Secret", for gems like:
Byrne writes: "A shortcut to manifesting your desires is to see what you want as absolute fact." Although normally people who see things that aren't there are considered delusional, I went with Byrne's recommendation to "act as if you have it already." One day my husband called from work to check on various house issues, and I said, "I'm so grateful that I finally got a beautiful kitchen floor.""Are you on something?" he asked.
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If you're interested in writing ebooks, visit my new blog, Top Ebook Writer. I'll be discussing how to write and sell ebooks in the coming months.
Self-publishing in the form of ebooks is the easiest way to turn your knowledge into cash. Of course, if you're looking for a print publisher for your book, selling it online as an ebook first is a great way to build an audience for your book, and find a publisher. Many ebooks have gone on to traditional publishing success.
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Write and Sell an eBook: Every Writer's Quick-Action Guide To Writing Ebooks
My new ebook, "Write and Sell an eBook: Every Writer's Quick-Action Guide To Writing Ebooks", clues you in on ebooks, and shows you how to write and sell your own ebook in two short weeks.
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Great writing video - enjoy. :-)
I'll join Bob Cratchit in proposing:
"A Merry Christmas to us all, my dears. God bless us!"Here's the complete text of "A Christmas Carol".Which all the family re-echoed.
"God bless us every one!" said Tiny Tim, the last of all.
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The network includes a blog called "Going The Other Way From Home", a book serialization on a blog, of which John Evans, Syntagma Media owner says:
We’re also developing our growing inventory of new book serializations. Following Steve Newman’s continuing tour de force of the Hemingway serialization of his fictionalized biography of the author’s life, he’s now putting up his new Victorian crime novel, The Crime of the Crimea featuring the detective duo, Swann and Parker. This will be preceded by a juicy Christmas story : The Great Christmas Train Robbery, written exclusively for Syntagma readers. Watch out for this soon.Blogging books for publicity - and a publishing contract Cory Doctorow's "Giving It Away" article in Forbes explains how giving a book away works in terms of publicity.
Getting a publishing contract for a book is an uphill battle. You need to think in terms of years of shopping a book proposal around (or an agent doing it for you.) Blogging a book is a way to shortcut that process.
You serialize your book on a blog, build some buzz for it, and wait for publishers to approach you. It's worked for many writers.
If you're writing a book, consider serializing it on a blog. Couldn't hurt, and it may be the fast-track to bestseller-dom.
If you're new to blogging, I cover blogging in my Blogging For Dollars Blog, which supports my new Blogging For Dollars ebook.
My gift to you: Holiday Season Writer's Gift Pack - Santa's sleigh is packed with gifts for you, dear writer. I wish you and yours a joyous holiday, and your best writing year ever in 2007.
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