As a handful of you may know, I’m very busy working on a blogging book right now. I have been attempting to start work on this thing since last November, and only recently I got some serious work done on it. Unlike other writers I take a very straight forward “slash and burn” approach to writing. I don’t fluff it with pages of useless stories. I write only what I specifically know about. If needed I do research to get a few facts, but otherwise it goes straight from my head to the page (much like this blog.)

My problem is that I have real websites to run and update, thousands of users to keep happy, and a blog to write. Its not an easy task! With all these distractions its difficult to make major progress on any project.
There is another well known writer out there who is also working on a blogging book which will completely dwarf mine when its released, so there is even more reason for me to get this done now. The good new is that I think mine will compliment his. If what he said was true, it will.

What is different about my book from the others that are already out is that I’m covering a lot of technical specifics about blogging. Forget the “Rich Jerk” generalizations, this is specific stuff that you can do yourself. For example, I’ve got a chapter written about using Google Analytics with your blog. Every day I’m learning great new stuff about this very powerful tool. Its not simply how to install Google Analytics, but how to take that information and use it to make more money with your websites (blog or otherwise.)

I’m also revealing all the “tricks” I’ve used in launching this blog. To be fair, this blog is nothing for me to brag about. What I will say is that I’m having a great time doing it, and if I had just a little more time to spend I could take it to a whole other level. I know some of you are experts in other fields and you are in a position to to some very powerful stuff with a blog. I can’t guarantee blogging will make you rich, but I guarantee you it will give you recognition and contacts that would be otherwise virtually unreachable (at least if you follow the stuff I’m writing about right now.) What you do with that information is up to you.