Sentences with phrase «building an author platform even»

Readers: Ultimately, you want your book to appeal to the people who are going to read it — so if you've been building your author platform even before your book is published, check in with your fans about which book formats they prefer.

Not exact matches

If you spend your time building an author platform like this, even if that one bird flies away, you'll get a dozen more tomorrow because you've built a bird - friendly environment.

And I think that's where a lot of confusion comes into play, because authors get advised to build a platform before they even have a first book out.

To maximize — or perhaps even replace — a traditional publicity campaign, you need to reach out to your audience directly by building and nurturing a strong online author platform.

But, many authors are confused about what this really means, what does it entail, and even if you do understand, how do you build an author platform?

«Even experienced authors will find the advice and new rules in Build Your Author Platform are worth their weight in gold.»

The best opportunities are in «hybrid» publishing, which means, doing the things that make you the most money and build your author platform (those two things are not identical, and often even at odds: as in, you may give one book away for free to reach new readers, and make money on other books you charge more on).

The ebook creation platform they've built is straightforward and easy to use, even for first - time authors.

Traditional publishers, especially the large ones, would probably simply reject these books and authors, even though they have completely valid reasons to publish a book, and come with a built in audience and platform.

Setting up and building your author platform before you even publish your first book is the best way for building a solid platform that will last and help you grow your tribe of fans.

A lot of authors find it hard to build their author platform, some don't even know what an author platform is.

Even if you're technologically challenged, you'll find implementing many of these online marketing strategies for authors easy because you can literally just watch the video and follow along on your own computer as you set up your own podcast show, upload a book trailer to YouTube, and build your author platform.

Other than not integrating their books into their overall marketing and business efforts, authors often don't realize how important it is to build a following — an author platform — even before they launch their books.

Build your author platform so that readers will be more inclined to buy what you say and sell, even if your design isn't perfect.

I don't need to pay for anybody's help, and even though EVERYBODY is writing books, very few people are building strong author platforms, and most have no idea how to get traffic or put their books in front of the right people.

As a self - published author (and even a traditionally published one), a huge part of selling books is building and maintaining an author platform.

The next challenge is for publishers to go beyond seeing authors» platforms and communities as simply a green light to take a risk on a book, to develop tools and expertise to support their authors to build their platform or business even further through the book.

Sounds like you've already started building your author platform before you even publish.

I've recently built up a team to help authors design author websites, run successful book launches, and even do content creation, social media management and custom author platforms.

Far too many authors don't start thinking about building their platforms and promoting themselves (and their books) until the day their book releases — or even months later, when they've sold nothing and are wondering why!

Typically, you want to begin building your author platform at least six months before your first book even comes out — start your blog, comment on others» blogs, set up a newsletter, and grow your presence online and in readers» circles like Wattpad by posting excerpts of your work.

As a publishing consultant, I stress to authors the importance of author platform, even for the newbie, it requires at least 12 months planning and building.

Before your book is even written you have to start promoting yourself and building your author's platform.

Even though you still need to format your book and design a cover, building your author platform should start before the book has been released.

Authors are being encouraged to write fast, write as many books as they can, pile them up as high as possible before even thinking about doing any «platforming,» or promotion or marketing or audience - building.

For non-fiction, a super idea on its own could be enough to get a deal even with a small platform, but the chances (and potential advance) go up along with the size of your platform... (lots of authors hope to trad publish because they DO N'T have a platform, but you actually need to build one yourself.)

Now, the focal point of this self - publishing course is going to be how to build an author platform and that is a rather broad subject, so we're going to be breaking it down into eight different chapters where you can expect to learn how to connect with your readers, how to find your book's audience, how to promote your book, information on self - publishing, and even ebook promotion.

Finally, in the final chapters, she show how you can build your author platform and use social media to attract an audience for your book before it is even published.

So, along with authors doing their homework before deciding where t publish, they also have to build their own platform prior to the book being even written and take all the media steps after as well.

I don't know how to start building an author platform... I don't even know what a platform is!

-LSB-...] Before we get started on the writing part of all this, let's discuss marketing, because you don't have a writing career if you don't market your work, regardless of how you are published (even if your book isn't even out yet); you can still be networking (ugh, i hate that word — let's go more with building relationships), and building your author platform.

It's easy to get distracted by all the things we can do to build our platform and promote our work, but the key is to figure out what we should do; and it's not the same for every author, or even every book.