Last week's release of Nina Amir's Amazon bestselling new book How to Blog a Book: Write, Publish and Promote Your Work One Post at a Time was met with a flurry of publicity. Amir took part in several activities designed to help aspiring authors and bloggers begin work on blogged books of their own.

On Monday, May 21, the day the book was due in brick and mortar stores,Amir took part in a podcast with renowned business Web coach and podcaster Jim Kukral. In addition, Brian Klems hosted Amir for a well-received special guest post entitled "7 Tips for Turning Your Blog into a Book" on the popular Writer's Digest blog. Later on Monday evening, Amir conducted an free teleseminar entitled

"Blog Your Way to a Book Deal" during which she answered readers' questions live. Links to all of these events are available here.

Last Monday's events were only the beginning of Amir's innovative campaign to inspire more writers to become book bloggers and for more bloggers to become published authors. In response to increased demand, her popular "Retweet and Win" Twitter Tip contest has now been expanded so her Twitter followers have three times as many chances to win. To participate, all you have to do is follow Amir on Twitter @NinaAmir. Every day at three different times, Amir will post a Twitter tip containing an excerpt from her new book along with the hashtag #howtoblogabook. Amir's Twitter tips will look similar to these:

No better way exists to test-market a book than to blog it into existence. p.18#howtoblogabook http://amzn.to/howtoblogabook

The more often you write, the faster your blog readership will grow. p.21#howtoblogabook http://amzn.to/howtoblogabook

Each week, one of her Twitter followers who retweets her Twitter tip will receive a free one-on-one 15-minute coaching session with Amir.

How to Blog a Book teaches aspiring authors how to create a blogged book with a well-honed and uniquely angled subject and targeted posts. Readers also learn how to develop a readership large enough to get noticed by an agent or a publisher. Inside the book readers will find:

• Basic information on how to set up a blog and the essential plug-ins and other options necessary to get the most out of each post
• Steps for writing a book easily from scratch using blog posts
• Advice on how to write blog posts
• Tips on gaining visibility and promoting the blogged book both online and off
• Tools for driving traffic to a blog
• Information on how to monetize an existing blog into a book or other types of products
• Profiles with authors who received blog-to-book deals

In her book, Amir explains how writing a book in cyberspace allows writers to get their manuscript written easily while promoting it and building an author's platform at the same time. It's a fun, effective way to start writing, publishing, and promoting a book, one post at a time—literally. The book is available for purchase at http://amzn.to/howtoblogabook

Nina Amir inspires writers to create the results they desire—publishable and published products and careers as writers and authors. She is a seasoned journalist, nonfiction editor, author, proposal consultant, blogger, and writing, book and author coach with more than 33 years of experience in the publishing field as well as the founder of Write Nonfiction in November, a blog and writing challenge. Her official Web site is located at http://www.ninaamir.com