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Lulu Blooker Contest Opens - Have You Blooked Today?

The 2nd annual Blooker prize is now open. Any book that has been based on a blog or website is eligible. The contest is sponsored by Lulu, an online print-on-demand publisher.

Lulu encourages authors to "blookify" their book content in time for the January 15, 2007 deadline. If I read their post right, what this means is that you can use your blog to create some content for it on your blog to qualify. It doesn't say that the entire content has to be created or published on a blog.

The Lulu Blooker Prize is the world's first literary prize devoted to "blooks"—books based on websites such as blogs and webcomics.

The prize will be awarded in three categories:

1. Fiction
2. Non-Fiction
3. Comics

We're not talking peanuts and a t-shirt here, folks. First Prize is $10,000, not to mention the publicity and fame. Category prizes are $2,500.

Lulu claims to be the world's fastest-growing provider of print-on-demand books, including a growing number of blooks. However, the judges are independent of Lulu and no favor will be shown to blooks published on Lulu. The winners will be announced Monday, May 14, 2007.

The 2006 Overall Winner was Julie & Julia, by Julie Powell. This clever book was written by a young woman who decided to try out every recipe in the Julia Child's Joy of French Cooking book in her tiny apartment kitchen.

Judges are Paul Jones (Chair), Arianna Huffington, Julie Powell (winner 2006), Rohit Gupta, and Nick Cohen.

Coming Soon: The People's Blooker— Nominate and vote for your favorite blooks. That should be fun.

Lulu can't claim to have invented the term "blook," but they do stake their claim on the verb "to blookify." Since money is involved, it might be better to get some specifics from Lulu on what blookify would mean to you and your book.

For sure, get cracking on blooking your book! Just a little blook each day, and you'll be there before January 15th.

You Know You Have a Book Inside You

Author 101: What You Need to Know

I am posting this important announcement because I want to help you be successful with writing. If you know you have a book inside you, then let's see about getting it out to the world.

Here's what you need - a new helpful resource about authoring and publishing your book.

It's a fantastic new book series called "Author 101" and I believe it could be the definitive guide for authors to follow to get published and become bestsellers.

Rick Frishman and Robyn Spizman have a whole team behind them helping to promote their new series. They've written the note below, and I highly recommend you look into it.

http://BestSellerPromotions.com/author101/

PS - I'm looking forward to using what they teach this year to create our own publishing success story.

** Here's the note from Rick Frishman's team **

I am posting this important announcement because I want to help you be successful with writing. If you know you have a book inside you, then let's see about getting it out to the world.

Here's what you need - a new helpful resource about authoring and publishing your book.

It's a fantastic new book series called "Author 101" and I believe it could be the definitive guide for authors to follow to get published and become bestsellers.

Rick Frishman and Robyn Spizman have a whole team behind them helping to promote their new series. They've written the note below, and I highly recommend you look into it.

http://BestSellerPromotions.com/author101/

PS - I'm looking forward to using what they teach this year to create our own publishing success story.

** Here's the note from Rick Frishman's team **

Are You A Blogger?

Coaches: Are you a Blogger?

Calling all coaches who are bloggers AND are planning to attend the ICF Conference in November.

The Blog Squad will be at the Conference and we'll be blogging on our new blog at The Blog Squad Live!  We're looking for 4-5 coaches who would like to be guest bloggers on the blog.

We're looking for blogger coaches who will commit to blogging about the conference before, during and after -- reporting on your experience and observations about the conference.

What do you get?  Lots of great exposure for you, your business and your blog, of course.  You'll get a link from our blog to your blog.  Your posts will be categorized by your name and we'll be promoting this blog/event heavily over the next few weeks before the conference.

Interested?  Contact Denise and Patsi ASAP.  Send us a link to your blog and tell us why you want to be a Blog Squad Guest Blogger during the ICF Conference. Send an email.

See you in San Jose!

P.S.  If you're not going to be at the Conference and you know coaches who are attending and may be interested in this opportunity, please let them know.  Thanks!

So, When Are You Going To Write YOUR Book?

I know several successful consultants who have written their own books, on subjects such as energy, motivation, values, & high performance in organizations.

Some examples are Bob Rausch & Energy Matters, and Bud Bilanich, the Common Sense Guy (4 Secrets of High Performing Organizations, Leading with Values) Also Greg Scott Reid, The Millionaire Mentor, and Positive Impact.

Not only do they make a little money selling their books at speaking gigs, they sell them on Amazon and on their own web sites.

Some give them away at speaking engagements, or to clients. These books demonstrate the author's knowledge of subject matter, and also show how they apply concepts when working with clients through the effective use of stories.

The other day I spent $9 for a little e-book off a book designer's site, and it was very interesting. It told a story about a person who had come to their company for services, what happened, and how