This panel presentation provides tips on how bloggers can leverage their social media presence to become authors. The presenter started blogging in 2009 and views writing a book as the next logical step from regularly blogging. Books allow ideas to be developed in a way that can open new doors and reach audiences that blogs may not. Publishing a book signals that the work is serious and can put the author on people's radar to drive traffic to their blog as well. After six years of blogging, the presenter decided their audience needed to broaden in a way not possible through blogging alone.

1. BloggerWeek Presentation
Saturday, May 2nd
, 2015
Start preppingforpanel inMay:
"From Blog To Book: Leveraging Your Social Media Presence To Become An Author,"
From BlogTo Book: LeveragingYourSocial MediaPresence ToBecome AnAuthor
Thispanel will provide in-depthtipsonhow tobuildyoursocial mediapresencetobecome anauthor.
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Startedbloggingin2009.
Biggestpoint..whyImade the jump.
A blogisan openendedproject.A bookisa closedendedproject.It’sfinite.
If you are able to maintainandkeepthe interestof anaudience withablog,thenyoucan do so witha
book.
As a bloggerwithanaudience,whysubjectyourselftothe same gatekeeperswhowouldkeepyouout
of the publishingworld?
To go from writingaregularlyupdated blogtoself-publishingabookisthe nextlogical step.
I wantedtodevelopmyideasinaway that wouldopendoors.
While blogginghasanddoesopendoors,booksforme,opendoorsthat blogscannot.
We still have torememberthatevenwithall thissocial media,there are people whodonotreadblogs.
You can’t go ontour witha blog.
Booksmeanthat you take yourmaterial seriously.If youtake yourcraft seriouslyenoughtoputit all in
one place,thenthatin itself signalstopeople thatthisismore thanjusta passingphase.
Some start blogsas hobbies.
A bookcan put youon people’sradar,anddrive people toyourblogaswell.
Aftersix years,Idecidedthatmyaudience needstobroadeninaway that ithas not before.

2. Writerresources- Self publishingfordummies.
Its actuallychangingthatbookstoresdon’ttake self publishedbooks.Ihave mybookin three stores
now.SistersUptown,WordUp, and source of Knowledge