I’ve been hinting at some new things for a while now. Obviously one of them is an upcoming blogging network. Another is my second book. I’m doing this book in conjunction with Aaron Brazell, one of the founding members of Ensight. Earlier this week we signed the contract, got the go-ahead on the Table of Contents (posted below), and started writing. Well, Aaron started writing… I’ve got a huge week this week, so I won’t be starting my bit until next week.

The plan is to have the writing done for the end of October, with the release sometime in November. It is being published by SpiderWorks, which is a bit of an experiment for me… Realistically, any publishing is still new to me and is experimental, but SpiderWorks is decidedly not a traditional publisher. Basically, there isn’t any advance, but the authors and publisher split the profits 50/50. In the case of SpiderWorks, books are done both as eBooks, as well as print-on-demand books.

It’s a bit of a different model than my first book (okay, it’s the polar opposite), but I’m excited about it. Truth be told, if the model works, I’ll be doing 3-4 of these with different authors per year, in addition to a book or two per year. If it doesn’t, it’s still another book under my belt, and is still something valuable to have contributed to the community.

Now, to the book…

The book is effectively a “blogging for dummies” book. It’s very basic and, in that respect, isn’t very new. However, I wanted to go beyond the normal basic blogging book and show not only what blogging is, why you should blog and how to blog, I also wanted to show readers how blogging would actually benefit them.

Here’s the table of contents to illustrate that:

Part 1: Getting Started with Blogs

 

Chapter 1 – The Earth, Water, Wind & Fire of Blogging

 

Chapter 2 – 8 Parables of Blogging

 

Chapter 3 – Show Me the Blog!

 

Part 2: Setting Up Your Blog

 

Chapter 4 – How to Setup Your Blog

 

Chapter 5 – Getting Started with RSS

 

Part 3: How Your Blog Can Help Your

 

Chapter 6 – How Your Blog Can Help Your … Job

 

Chapter 7 – How Your Blog Can Help Your … Relationships

 

Chapter 8 – How Your Blog Can Help Your … Ideas

 

pan style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Chapter 9 – How Your Blog Can Help Your … Hobbies

 

Chapter 10 – How Your Blog Can Help Your … Company

 

Part 4: Becoming a Blogging Success

  

Chapter 11 – Succeeding In Blogging

 

Chapter 12 – Making Money with Blogs

 

Appendices

 

Glossary

A glossary of popular and important blogging terms, to help new bloggers on their way.

 

Tips from Top Bloggers

A collection of short tips and excerpts from top bloggers on how to succeed, how to maximize your blogging potential and how to change the world through blogging.

While this may not be quite as new or revolutionary as Blog Marketing was/will be, our hope is that it’ll serve as a valuable manuscript to new bloggers which helps them grasp blogging in a more elemental fashion.

This is also my first time co-authoring, which should be interesting in a lot of ways as well.

Overall this is an entirely new experience for me, but also one I’m very excited with.

Hopefully I’ll be able to talk more over the next few weeks about some of the other projects coming out of Camp Jeremy.

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