The Blog Route to Publication
I've said it before here, but blogs are HOT in the publishing world right now!
An ever-growing roster of books have been commissioned from blogs. They include Blood, Sweat and Tea by London ambulanceman Tom Reynolds, Abandoned: The true story of a girl who didn't belong by Anya Peters (which is about homelessness), and the explicit Girl With a One-Track Mind by Abby Lee (real name Zoe Margolis).
I was reminded of this again a few days ago, when my colleague (and purchaser of my Write Any Book in Under 28 Days course) Dr Suzanne Harris told me that she has a publisher interested in her new blog at http://dresstokillonebay.blogspot.com. The blog is described as 'A woman's guide to buying clothes on a budget'. It's a great-looking blog - do check it out - but perhaps the most impressive thing is that it has only been going for a few weeks.
So if you have a blog, it's worth thinking about approaching a few publishers to see if they are interested in turning it into a book. And even if you don't have a blog, there's nothing to stop you starting one. Use the free Blogger service, for example, and you could have a blog up and running in ten minutes - no programming skills required.
Finally, if you're wondering where to start in the quest to find a publisher for your blog, one company you could consider is the UK-based Friday Project. They are actively looking for books based on blogs or websites, and say they will consider both fiction and non-fiction.
Happy blogging!
An ever-growing roster of books have been commissioned from blogs. They include Blood, Sweat and Tea by London ambulanceman Tom Reynolds, Abandoned: The true story of a girl who didn't belong by Anya Peters (which is about homelessness), and the explicit Girl With a One-Track Mind by Abby Lee (real name Zoe Margolis).
I was reminded of this again a few days ago, when my colleague (and purchaser of my Write Any Book in Under 28 Days course) Dr Suzanne Harris told me that she has a publisher interested in her new blog at http://dresstokillonebay.blogspot.com. The blog is described as 'A woman's guide to buying clothes on a budget'. It's a great-looking blog - do check it out - but perhaps the most impressive thing is that it has only been going for a few weeks.
So if you have a blog, it's worth thinking about approaching a few publishers to see if they are interested in turning it into a book. And even if you don't have a blog, there's nothing to stop you starting one. Use the free Blogger service, for example, and you could have a blog up and running in ten minutes - no programming skills required.
Finally, if you're wondering where to start in the quest to find a publisher for your blog, one company you could consider is the UK-based Friday Project. They are actively looking for books based on blogs or websites, and say they will consider both fiction and non-fiction.
Happy blogging!
Labels: blogging, opportunities, writing
Nick at 7:18 AM 
4 Comments:
Hi Nick,
Thanks for writing about my blog. It has been going less than three weeks and has already had almost 600 visitors and numerous comments. There is a free weekly newsletter and at the moment I am running a competition to win a designer perfume bottle.
Suzie x
A couple of months ago I learned that I had incurable pancreatic cancer with an estimated life span of 6 months to a year. I started a blog - www.captpancreas.blogspot.com - that was meant to me an irreverant look at how a 45-year old Rock Dad deals with this. Although it's early days, a well-known publisher of non-fiction titles has contacted me with the view to turning it into a book. So, there you go....
What can I say, Brian? Congratulations on your excellent blog - I'm not surprised a publisher has expressed an interest in it. Very sorry though to hear about your condition and the gloomy prognosis. I hope you are able to confound the doctors. I can't begin to imagine what you are going through, but please know that you and your family have my sympathy, as well as my deepest respect for confronting the situation as bravely as you are doing.
Do you know of any publishers in the U.S. who are interested in turning blogs into books, Nick?
Thanks for this article!
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