Ebook writers

There are a lot of ebooks out there and a lot of ebook writers.  However, ProBlogger Darren Rowse had a few tips if you are just getting started.  He has 13 steps listed in a post he has to get you off high center,and get you started.  We’ll be posting more advice here in the next few weeks so keep checking in.

Here is how Darren starts his posts.  You would also be miles ahead in your journey if you subscribed to Darren’s RSS feed as he often has valuable tips on a variety of subjects.  After all, he’s the Problogger:

You already know all the reasons to do it: you’ve downloaded your share of free ebooks from other blogs, and you’ve seen that:

• Free ebooks can be used as what Sonia Simone calls “cookie content”, to entice newsletter sign-ups
• Free ebooks can be a great traffic draw: they get twittered about and linked to
• Just having a free ebook available on your site will subtly shift readers’ perceptions: they’ll see you as one of the “big guys” of the blogging world

But, of course, an ebook is harder to create than a blog post. A 25-page ebook is 4,000 words or more; you have to edit and proof-read carefully (once people are emailing that ebook to one another, you can’t fix that embarrassing typo or broken link); you’ll need PDF and ebook cover software if you want it to look professional; you have to launch it with a bang…

Writing an ebook isn’t an easy undertaking, and it’s something a lot of bloggers never do. That’s why, if you do write a high-quality free ebook, you’re going to stand out.

—–Darren Rowse

Enjoy and apply the tips.  Again…here are the 13 steps listed.