How Blogging Can Help Land a Book Deal - From Copyblogger

Posted by Donna on January 8, 2010 under blogging, branding |

One of my favorite blogging resources has become CopyBlogger. A colleague referred this blog about blogging to me a few months ago and I’ve found it extremely helpful in many areas, from developing content and SEO to best practices in blogging. There was a new post this week from contributing blogger, Larry Brooks I thought would be useful to share here at Social Media for Writers: How My Blog Landed Me a Book Deal.

Blogging is indeed crucial for authors. It’s great for building a personal brand, enhancing SEO, and for getting more personal with an audience. When it comes to using a blog to help a writer get published, blogging can help build an audience and a platform. That’s what Brooks writes about here.

Brooks’ blog post discusses how having a quality blog can help writers get a book deal, but he first demystifies that this is not a shoe-in or overnight solution. Rather, getting published as a result of a popular blog is something that takes time and something that is just part of the process, not an alternative route to being discovered. Not everyone can be Diablo Cody or Tucker Max, after all. Brooks leads his post with this valuable blogging advice:

“First, let’s get one thing out of the way. A blog alone, no matter how popular, isn’t enough to score you a book contract. It’s not quite that simple. In other words, it doesn’t quite work the way it does on television.”

I encourage you to check out the rest of this post and learn how blogging can help you build an audience and platform, and perhaps, add Copy Blogger to your list of writing and social media resources.