Blogging Your Non-Fiction Book

Enjoyable Content May Possibly Boost Sales!

Blogging is still a booming trend, and blogging about your non-fiction book could not only help increase your sales, but it might boost your fan base as well. Everyone likes to know more about a book before they invest their hard-earned dollars on a copy, so why not blog about your latest non-fiction book and give them what they want!

The first thing you need to do is set up a blog. One of my personal favorite blog hosts is Blogger. Blogger is simple to use, and you don't even have to have HTML experience.

After you get your blog set up, create a template that matches the cover of your book in some way - colors, design and/or etc. If you use Blogger, login and click on "template," then "pick new." From there you can select one of Blogger's set templates, or while in "template," you can click on "edit current," and edit the HTML code in the box below. I did say you don't need HTML experience, and that is true, but having some basic knowledge of HTML can be very beneficial to you, and it can help you build a template to match your book's cover. (See "more resources" below for links to Web sites that will help you learn HTML.)

Once you have your template, the next thing you want to do is edit your basic settings to tell visitors a little bit about your blog. To edit your basic settings using blogger, click on "settings," then click basic settings. Once there, choose a title for your blog; you may want this to be the same as your non-fiction book or similar. Since you're a writer, you should have no problem coming up with an eye-catching, brief description of what you're blog is about. In this case, your blog will be in relation to your non-fiction book. Continue setting your blog up by selecting your preferences. Blogger gives simple explanations of each choice in case you don't know exactly what it is.

As soon as you have set up your blog completely and edited your profile, you can start blogging about your non-fiction book. You will want to keep your blog updated on a regular basis - at least once a week if that's all you have time for. Some things you can blog about to keep visitors coming back for more are as follows:

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