When you get right down to it, most guest posts at most writing blogs are like this: "I just published MY NEW BOOK! This post is advertising for MY NEW BOOK thinly disguised as writing advice. When I wrote it, I discovered that I could outline! You should try it, it might help you, just like it helped me when I wrote MY NEW BOOK! Did I mention that MY NEW BOOK is available at Amazon, B&N, and other places where books are sold?"

Yeah, and some day, I hope that I will be writing a bunch of those posts….