Problogger’s Guest Blogger
If you’re not subscribed to Darren Rowse’s problogger site, you miss out on great, great posts. Additionally, because of his drawing power, Darren is able to get some really nice, exclusive posting from other high level bloggers. Today’s post is by Penelope Trunk - columnist at the Boston Glob and Yahoo! Finance, blogger at www.blog.penelopetrunk.com and author of Brazen Careerist: The New Rules for Success
How to Get a Six Figure Book Deal From Your Blog
Ms. Trunk has some very astute observations based upon the successful publishing of her second book, as well as publishing in the most traditional sense, hardback on Amazon, B&N, your corner bookstore. You get it.
While I’ve had certain challenges with that old world publishing regime, tending to lean towards the new media and all that the Net has to offer new world authors, I have to say reading through Ms. Trunk’s ten items makes me want to reconsider. I do think there’s a nice balance between the old and the new, and now I have much better guidelines to follow.
Listed below are the ten bullet points from the problogger post. Don’t stop here, however, continue on through to Darren’s site and get the nitty gritty on each item. Well worth the trip!
- Solve a problem
- Have a big idea
- If you’re in a niche, make it a big one
- Have a big audience, but say they are old rather than young if you want a lot of money
- Have a lot of blogger friends to promote the book, but talk mostly about USA Today
- Follow conventions
- Find someone to model yourself after
- Your blog goes in the marketing section of your proposal
- Trust that agents know a good proposal when they see one, but try again if you get a bad response
- Use blog comments to train yourself for rejection
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