Authors and hopeful authors often ask me, \u201cIf I start a blog what should I write about?\u201d The obvious answer is, \u201cWrite about the theme of your book. Write for your book\u2019s audience.\u201d<\/p>\n
If you\u2019re an author or plan to be, the point of having a blog is to speak to your readers, to widen your audience base, to create another avenue for promoting your books and related services. How do you do this through a blog? For a nonfiction book, you can accomplish this by offering information, resources, news and so forth related to the topic of your book. A blog for fiction can be an entirely different animal, however. <\/p>\n
Here\u2019s what I suggest to authors of fiction who want to have a continuing relationship with their readers through a blog.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tShare backstories telling how you came to write this book, describing the process, revealing how you came up with your characters, talking about plot and the transitions you experienced in determining it, etc.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tFlesh out your next storyline. Get reader feedback.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tWrite about writing fiction\u2014make your blog all about fiction-writing. Interview other novelists, writing teachers and editors, etc. <\/p>\n
\u2022\tCover trends and news in the fiction book market and specifically within your genre\u2014YA fantasy, sci fi, cozy mysteries, chic lit, etc.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tOffer advice for other writers.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tShare stories of your book marketing process\u2014where you are speaking, book festivals you\u2019ve attended, unexpected promotional opportunities and so forth.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tRead books like \u201cNo More Blank Screen: Blogging Ideas for Fiction Authors\u201d by Krista D. Ball. <\/p>\n
\u2022\tDo an Internet search for articles and blog posts on blogging for fiction authors. There are several.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tSpy on other novelists who blog. What are they blogging about? Are they attracting comments? Adopt some of their techniques.<\/p>\n
The more you write, the more ideas you will come up with for your blog. That\u2019s why I often suggest that fiction writers spend some time and expend some energy writing articles or nonfiction essays. It is excellent practice, you can make a little money doing it and it will train your brain to open up more to ideas for your blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Authors and hopeful authors often ask me, \u201cIf I start a blog what should I write about?\u201d The obvious answer is, \u201cWrite about the theme of your book. Write for your book\u2019s audience.\u201d If you\u2019re an author or plan to be, the point of having a blog is to speak to your readers, to widen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,5],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t