Blog Your Book Workshop
If you've got a book in you, a blog could be just the stepping stone you need towards securing a publisher or successfully self-publishing your book. If you have already published your book, publishing a blog will help you promote it faster and less expensively than a website or any other promotional tool. More than ever before, literary agents are paying attention to quality weblogs, and publishers are looking for someone with writing chops and a fresh take on a topic. With innovative and user-friendly software now available, you can also easily turn your blog into a printed book. Your blog can be a promotional vehicle and it can also be used as a platform for writing, editing, getting feedback, acquiring testimonials and publishing your blog as a book. By the end of the workshop you’ll know how you can leverage a blog for publishing and promoting you, your writing and your books online.
You’ll learn to:
- Register your domain and secure a web host
- Determine the best publishing system for your blog
- Design a site plan for your blog
- Install a blog publishing system on your domain or join a hosted system
- Set up a navigation system for your blog
- Learn 25 blogging styles and when to use them
- Set up a blogroll to increase traffic and page rank
- Design headers and footers so you can easily convert your blog to a book
- Set up a table of contents for your blog
- Invite comments and feedback on your writing
- Install a bookmarking system on your blog
- Bookmark your blog in technorati and other blog directories
- Optimize your blog for search engines
- Promote your blog online and offline
- and much more…
Saturday, January 30, 2010
9:00 to 4:00pm.MacEwan City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton
This workshop which I am facilitating is offered as a course in MacEwan’s Writing Works Program and is designed especially for writers, editors and book publishers. See more about this course and register by calling the Registrar at MacEwan at (780) 497-5000. I hope to see you there!
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This workshop will be offered for the first time as a course in the Writing Works program at MacEwan's City Centre campus on Saturday, January 30, 2010 from 9 to 4pm. 
