Subscribe today to get inspired and learn from the professionals. If youve ever bought a book on impulse, it was probably due at least in part to the blurb on the back or the sales copy on the website. In order to reduce the size of your exported blog, youll first want to go to your. The idea of writing a whole book can be pretty daunting. Blurbs were originally printed on the back or rear dustjacket of a book, and are now found on web portals and news websites. Professionalquality photo books for creative expressions of all kinds.
This article gives you simple steps to follow to write a book blurb, and gives examples of both fiction and nonfiction back cover blurbs. Making a photo book in bookwright just got a whole lot easier with blurb photo managerthe easiest way to pull your photos into your book making workflow. Our copywriter is an awardwinning magazine writer, copywriter, author, and copy editor. Get started making an ebook with blurb s ebook creator. This guide will show you exactly how to turn your wordpress blog to book, from choosing the right topic and articles for your book, all the way to publication. How to turn your tumblr blog into a beautiful book makeuseof. Writing a short book blurb is not only fun, but great practice for writing promotional copy of any kind. A blurb is a short promotional piece accompanying a piece of creative work. Your wordpress, blogger, tumblr, ghost, typepad, livejournal, medium or twitter blog turned into a document. It transferred the blog posts without any manual work. There are services like blurb or blog2print that will take your blog and build a book from it. As an author, how can we turn this to our advantage.
The transformation from wordpress blog to book can require some work, but it doesnt have to be complicated if you follow the right steps. Design and publish beautiful photo books, trade books, ebooks, and more. Youll also find some useful links to websites with further information. Comment with your favourite book title and tag the author. It was an enormous pain in the ass, as the site i picked blurb. Blurb and shutterfly are two wellknown and wellestablished photo book companies. The main reason was again that it didnt preserve the format of my blog. Dont let your ideas go unnoticed, create a trade book with blurb. That will help some people who want to print their blog into a book, but not everyone. Maybe you want to take your blog and turn it into a book. Blurb blurb is a self publishing company that offers a formatting. Tutorial on navigating blurb s bookwright program to make an album or photo book, including setting up page templates, adding text, and designing your cover.
Stay uptodate with tips and tricks on bookmaking, selling, marketing, and more. If you need to make a change to your book after youve uploaded it, edit your book in booksmart then upload it again. Its much more userfriendly than indesign or other layoutgraphic design software. Do you want to selfpublish a book and already have the content.
If you look at my books, you can tell from the blurbs, i hope, that some books will be funnier than others. How can we write that back cover copy that hooks a passing browser, and turns him or her into a loyal reader. Bookwright, our free book publishing software, features videos, instructions, and tips built right into the application so youll have everything you need to selfpublish a book, right at your fingertips. The benefits of a professionally written book blurb. So there are 1,000 photos id have to skim through while also looking back at my blog posts to see which photos go to which post. The whole process with blurb has been super easy, putting the book together using the bookwright app was. Blurb will slurp your blogs content into a book, but its not without tremendous effort and reformatting that you can make it look decent. Their technical staff is obtuse and they use a biased color profile. We will create a feature post for the book, including blurb, buy links and author bio which will feature during the week on our main page. With booksmart by blurb you download software to your computer that helps you organize the information from you blog. Download blurb bookwright, a powerful and free book publishing software anyone can use.
Create a book from your blog posts and photos the easy way, with blog2print. Write it in your voice, the same voice in which the book is written. Going from wordpress blog to book your ultimate guide. As 2008 drew to a close, i began working feverishly to transform my blog from the past year into book form. It needs to hook the reader and make them want to go on the journey with your characters. How to write a book blurb in 4 steps the opening of your blurb has to be incredibly precise and dynamic, says editor rebecca heyman for a lot of firsttime authors, i think theres an instinct to make sure readers understand everything that happened in the book s universe before the beginning of the actual story. Please bring this feature back i am sick about not being able to use blurb to turn my family blog into a book, like i do every year. Blurb promises to turn your blog into a hardcover book within days. Make changes to book after its uploaded help center. While researching this blog post, i came across various kinds of blog to book software and tools that turn web pages and blog posts into pdfs and books for. I try to give my blurbs a funny, smart, sexy, tender vibe, because i think i hope that matches the books. While mapping out your editorial calendar, write a oneline goal for each post. Blog to book eventually settles into the standard blurb bookmaking software routine, where you can move content, swap around images, play with facing pages, choose numerous layout and text combinations, etc.
Like and share the post and clik book blog on facebook and instagram. In ferriss case, publishing a book brought readers to his blog. Ten years on, the blog has become his brand hub, drawing millions of readers to his posts, and tens of millions of downloads of his podcast. Fixedlayout ebooks are built seamlessly as you design the book, so no additional steps needed. I have been a long time user but they are unable to print photo books true to the original images. It may be written by the author or publisher or quote praise from others. But what makes this blurb truly special, and why i single it out for praise is that it has a concealed double function. Our plugin lets you upload your project to blurb without ever leaving indesign. How to write a romance blurb blog author rosalind james. Trade books let you capture memories, ideas, inspiration, thoughts, photographs and even recipes, to name a few.
While researching this blog post, i came across various kinds of blog to book software and tools that turn web pages and blog posts into pdfs and books for free. Ive been using it for a sideproject with the kuwait dive team. In 2008 blurb launched a tool to turn your blog into a book via its staple desktop publishing software booksmart. Create a book from a pdf file using blurbs pdf to book. The fixedlayout epub3 file or pdf is compatible with apple iphone, ipad, and amazon kindle. Information and translations of blurb in the most comprehensive dictionary definitions resource on the web. Blurb is a basic service useable for basic book printing. Turning your blog into a book is an increasingly popular option. We support blogger, hosted or selfhosted wordpress, typepad and tumlbr. Clik book blog flirty jb heller coming may 7th blurb. Personalised photo books make custom photo albums blurb. Blurb initially launched in may of 2006 with a tool to turn your blog into a book. Its my hobbyist photography blog and i would love to have an albumkeepsake of it. Blurb founded in 2004, focuses solely on printondemand photo books and other book type products such as notebooks and planners.
Blurb s pdf to book tool makes it easy to do so in just a few steps, with a pdf file from any application. Bookwright is a free software from blurb for mac osx and windows for laying out professionallooking books, magazines, and ebooks. But if youve been blogging for a few months or years, you may have already written enough to fill a book. Get a professionally written book blurb that will sell. Savvy selfpublishers know that timing is everything when it comes to promoting a book. Using photo manager, you can import your images directly from the cloud, using any of the following services. While you are busy promoting your book at live events and creating buzz on social media, its important to have a digital base where your readers can get all. To turn your wordpress blog to book people will actually want to read, you.
They advertise a blog to book method and they offer color books hardcover or soft. A keepsake photo book that gets photos off a screen and onto pages by pulling from a personal instagram account. Blurb makes it easy to create any kind of book or magazine, including photography books, illustrated books, cookbooks, wedding albums, memory books, and ebooks. They claim they can slurp my blog and drop it into a book, which i can then order for myself and sell online from their service. Booksmart has deleted the feature to slurp blogs to a book. Bookwright allows you to create an ebook and a print book, all from one file. Now you can easily import your photos into your next book. I have a wordpress blog that i would love to turn into a blurb book just for me. Out of all the sites out there, blurb is the best at making this process user friendly and have the ability to edit the content if needed. Affordable paperbacks and hardcoverspriced to sell. Add quotes, texts and impressive full page photos to your book. Blog2print gives bloggers a quick and affordable way to print their blogs as a beautiful book. I made a hardcover book of my moms blog using blurb.
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