Create Your Writer Platform by Chuck Sambuchino

Author:Chuck Sambuchino [Sambuchino, Chuck]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Arts & Disciplines, Authorship, Language, Non-Fiction, Publishing, Writing
ISBN: 9781599635798
Google: qiBjDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2012-10-25T23:00:00+00:00

BLOG-TO-BOOK DEALS

Is it possible to get a book deal solely from a successful blog? It’s difficult, but it’s certainly been done before. A majority of the successes I’ve seen in this arena are in the humor book market. Titles such as Fail Nation, Passive Aggressive Notes, People of Walmart, Awkward Family Photos, and more were all blogs that took off in popularity—and soon led to book deals.

Realize that only blogs of enormous size can warrant a true blog-to-book deal. So if you’re getting twenty thousand page views a month on your site about the Olympics, that alone will likely not be enough. (The humor sites that inspired the aforementioned books get hundreds of thousands of page views a month, if not higher numbers.)

You want to start blogging in support of your book project and gain a platform. It is very unlikely that your content will be picked up as is and pasted into a book. Keep that in mind when mapping out your book as well as your posts. Blogs that translate well into books are blogs with content that can be broken down into small pieces. Humorous photos accomplish this well. Blog-to-book deals such as Rules for My Unborn Son and Stuff White People Like also worked well because the content could stay sliced and diced from blog to book. Your book idea will more than likely be supported and supplemented by your blog.

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