Why and how I turned 30 days consecutive blogging into an e-book. Creative and production aspects

1. Blog to Book in 30 Days

2. Background
• Psychology and writing
• Like experiments
• Make digital stuff

3. Why Do This
• Creativity can be bootcamped
• Not clear niche in trad pub
• See what absolute immersion brings…

4. What Learnt
• Blogs and books
different – editing
• Blogs high impact
• Books more symphonic
– flow and quiet times
• Do readers flit or
contemplate?

5. Most Important Lesson
• Act of doing it – defines you
• Informal (undefended) and personal (your id)
• ‘Act of blogging fundamentally literary’ (Scott
Rosenberg)
• Love matters: subject/people/progress

6. Set Up Through

7. Your Blog to Book Purpose
• Love your subject and like making stuff
• Reputation, money (?), influence, make friends
• Love books
• Explore and expand your voice & ideas
• Write stuff no one else will publish

8. Essentials
• Title
• Non-fiction: top 3 questions people want to know
• Fiction: what else do they read?
• Where can you find them?
• What is your book’s fascinator?

9. Pressbooks.com
• Wordpress dashboard
• Parts & chapters
• Html online : private or public, free or paywall
• Export: epub/pdf/xml
• Collaborative editing
‘PressBooks makes it easy to generate clean,well-formatted
books in multiple outputs’

10. Freebies and Collaborating

11. Different Styles - Epub

12. Format & Location Choices
• Pressbooks.com
• http://www.slideshare.net/mackinaw/pressbooks-demo-deck
• http://www.chrisbrogan.com/pressbooks/

13. Other Options

14. @pjpubli
Good Luck!