Blog-to-Book Course
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๐๐ฝ Great example of a support thread in our FB group

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Course Helper: Dorota Godby

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Comments under the lessons are worth reading!

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Watch whole course at once, or at own pace, one phase at a time?

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Is there a Resource Document / written handout?
The Publishing Mindset

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The Magnum Opus Trap

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Imposter syndrome in book writing

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Your Book within Your Business Model

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5 Phases of Book Writing/Publishing

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Your Future Audience

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Imagine your ideal reader -- write a quick note...

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Should you publish workbooks or "low content" books?
Choosing your Book Topic

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How to choose topic of your book? Intuitively or analytically...

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Several questions to help you choose the theme/topic of your book...

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You have lots of writings... what order to publish your books?

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Are inspirational books less valuable than how-to books? Free vs premium content...
Book Structure & Content

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Book Structure... and is it really OK to just have a book of blog posts?

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What's the Ideal Book Length?

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What kinds of CTAs could you have in your book?

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End of chapter CTA links -- Text or Video?

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Is there an ideal chapter length?

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Can you mix styles, e.g. memoir vs how-to?

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Can you repurpose content between books?

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Ideally you would publish blog posts / chapters along the way...

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Linking ideas, or having one chapter flow better into the next one...

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Does social media, like Facebook, own your writing?
Gathering Your Notes / Blog Posts

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Intro to the "gathering" exercise

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Joselito Laudencia shares experience of gathering notes into a book

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How broad or narrow should book topic be?

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Is 1 blog post a chapter... or multiple posts?

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Should you mix in yet-unblogged writing with blogged writing in your book?

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What about interviews and speaking notes, can they be book material?

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You can also turn Audio recordings into book chapters...

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How to gather book references?

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Quoting others in your book -- Fair Use

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What about images / photos / graphics in books?

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EXERCISE: Gathering Your Posts and Notes

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Scrivener?

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Copy/Paste Emojis โฆ
Categorizing Your Blog Posts / Notes: Simple Document

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Categorizing with Simple Google Doc
Quickly See Your Best Social Media Writings

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Quickly see your best writings on Medium

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Quickly see your best writings on FB Business Page

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Quickly see your best writings on Instagram
Categorizing Your Blog Posts / Notes: Spreadsheet

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Categorizing with Spreadsheet

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How to put repurposed articles into the Spreadsheet?

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Only track organic reach?

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Overwhelmed with spreadsheet consolidation?
Let's Categorize!

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EXERCISE: Categorizing Your Notes into Themes

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Order of chapters: prioritize Best or Logical?

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EXERCISE: Put your Posts into Chapter Order...

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Thoughts on the Intro and Ending Chapters

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Introductory chapter -- how long and what's in it?

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At what point should you stop adding to the material of a book?

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You have so much writing... how to chunk down to manageable book?
Recruiting Your Editors

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EXERCISE: Write names of potential editors...

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Heather Tobin: Experience of a Volunteer Editor

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Do editors need to be content experts? + How much time to give them?

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How much work is expected of a Volunteer Editor?

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How many editors to invite?

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Should we give our editors some incentive or thank-you gift?

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EXERCISE: draft email to editors...

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Track your contacting of editors...
Book Draft Document for Editors

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Actual example of me prepping a document for Editors

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HOMEWORK -- Prepare the document for Editors

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How "ready" does your Draft need to be for the Editors?

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Give all Editors the whole book draft?

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Yes: Acknow. + About Author. No need: Preface, Foreword, Afterword.

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Why I put FB video at end of each of my chapters...

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If you have many references... just make a bibliography?
Are you ready for a 2nd Edition?

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When is it time for a 2nd Edition?

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2nd Editions: add more content, or just revise?

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What's my process of creating a 2nd edition?
Progress Checkpoint 1

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How's it going with getting Editors?

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Reminder: join our FB group for mutual support ๐ฅฐ

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Announce your book process as early as possible ๐๐ฝโโ๏ธ
๐ THE BOOK LAUNCH TEMPLATE

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The Book Launch Template ๐

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What's the ideal time of year to launch a book?
Book Marketing Principles

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Top 10 Factors for Book Selling Success

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Lots of Book Marketing Ideas!

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Do you have to market your book... or can it just be "discovered"? ๐ค

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KDP Marketing Tools

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KDP Marketing -- Nominate your ebooks and prime reading

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Kindle Countdown Deal and Free Book Promotion

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Amazon Author Central - syndicate your blog post RSS feed to your Author Page

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Set up your Goodreads Author Page and associate your books

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Most book sales are Kindle version... so teach your audience how to read that version :)

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The lazy / easy way -- does it require a large audience?
Book Title & Subtitle

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Keyword brainstorming for the book title

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How niched-down (specific) should a book title be?

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Turn your Keywords into Book Titles โจ

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Poll your audience with your favorite 3 book titles ๐ค

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Example of a title poll
Ensure that your Title doesn't violate existing trademark/copyright
Fiverr Tutorial
The main Fiverr tutorials have moved...

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Try Fiverr: get started with a book cover idea...

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Finding a Fiverr book editor
Getting Reviews & Book Blurbs

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Getting book blurbs

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Getting reviews (important!)

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How many reviews to aim for?

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Give a book summary to reviewers also?

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My lazy way of requesting book reviews...
Progress Checkpoint 2

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Progress check-in 2

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Delay publishing, so you can fill the gaps in your book first?

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My personal update (and on "working lightly")

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Check-in with / remind your Editors

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Plan to do a Pre-Order period?

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Amazon -- ethical objections to using it or buying from them?

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Carve out extra time during launch week...
Book Cover

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Book Cover -- first brainstorm your vision

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Book Cover -- secondly, get ideas via Amazon

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Book Cover Fiverr designers

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What does your book cover designer need from you?

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Does book cover need to match your brand colors?

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Poll your audience re: designs, via google form (randomized questions / shuffled order)

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Upgrade your book cover design

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After eBook Cover is done, *then* create the Paperback Cover Design

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Book Back Cover Design tips
Your Edited Book Draft ๐๐ฝ

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Which edits to accept vs reject? and f* chicago manual of style ๐

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Confirming the edits, and putting it all into one google doc! ๐

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Creating a Table of Contents for your book using google doc

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Copyright page -- anything important to note?

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Formatting headers and subheaders in google doc

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Spellcheck!

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Send your digital book to reviewers ๐คฉ
Book Interior Design / Formatting for Kindle & Paperback

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What is book "interior design"?

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Send book to Fiverr for layout / formatting aka "interior design"
Uploading your (Kindle) book to Amazon!

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KDP intro and previewing your book manuscript

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Typos can just be corrected & reuploaded

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KDP Details -- Title, Series, Edition, Author, Contributors

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KDP Book "Description" field

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Why I don't worry about KDP keywords...

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Book Categories (and the sham of Amazon Bestseller Status)

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Kindle DRM

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Kindle Select

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Launch previewer and approve before you can go to final step...

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Paperback territories, "primary marketplace", pricing, royalties, and publishing

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Be sure to check in and remind your reviewers several times!
Book Pricing Tips

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What if no preview image on Amazon book page after publishing?

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Presale Pricing / Kindle Promotion
Easily creating a Paperback with Amazon KDP

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Get a free ISBN from KDP Amazon

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Uploading your Paperback Manuscript to KDP + Trim Size, Bleed, and Finish

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White or Cream Paper? (Probably cream)

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Create a quick temporary paperback cover so you can preview the book

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Previewing your paperback text in the KDP previewer

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Uploading the real Paperback Cover Design

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Paperback territories, "primary marketplace", pricing, royalties, and publishing
Paperback/hardback printing options other than Amazon
Progress Checkpoint 3

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Overview of Blog-to-Book Process
Recording Your Audiobook

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Tips for recording your Audiobook

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If you have an accent, should you record your own audiobook?

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Audible / ACX -- creating your title and uploading the audio files (after sound mastering)
Congrats on Publishing Your Book! ๐๐ฝ๐คฉ

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Secret of becoming #1 Amazon Bestseller...
BookLinker: one link that auto directs people to their correct Amazon website

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KDP Book Sales Reports

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