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Before I share my best advice on social media for authors, let's about your author platform in general.

Many publishers that accept direct submissions require you to include information about your author platform in the query letter.

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In addition to wearing their writer's hat, self - published authors need to do just about everything that goes into packaging, marketing, and selling books, like building an author platform.

One other nice thing about being a published author, is that it proves that you are an expert in your field, which gets you invited to speak at conferences, which increases your visibility and platform in the fishing world, which then allows you to get more books published.

One wonders: do the authors of the Platform themselves agree about whether the «dignity of all persons» is offended by abortion, whether racial quotas honor or violate the principle that «discrimination is abhorrent,» or whether the virtue of «tolerance» requires putting up with obscenity in the music of rock and rap?

«We've developed a platform for computer - mediated communication between humans and dogs that opens the door to new avenues for interpreting dogs» behavioral signals and sending them clear and unambiguous cues in return,» says Dr. David Roberts, an assistant professor of computer science at NC State and co-lead author of «Towards Cyber-Enhanced Working Dogs for Search and Rescue,» a paper about the work.

In the past, the model and cookbook author has taken to her social platforms to get real about everything from stretch marks and period skin to the occasional spray tan gone wrong.

About Blog Writers Network (WN) is an online platform which provides information, resources and opportunities for anyone involved in or interested in sharing a story, whether they are an author, freelance writer, artist, or just want to share anything.

About Blog It is the mission of Indies Unlimited to celebrate independent authors; to help them build their followings; to provide a platform for members of the independent author community to share and exchange ideas, knowledge, expertise and frustrations; and, for readers and reviewers to become exposed to the amazing depth and array of talent in the indie community.

«We care about these findings in part because we fundamentally believe that social media platforms afford exciting opportunities for civic voice and participation,» says Weinstein, the study's lead author.

In the days of digital technology, e-books, tablet reading devices and Kindle Direct Publishing (to name one distribution platform), paperback for indie authors was the one «as yet unconquered» land for self - published authors everywhere until about four years ago, when Amazon - owned print - on - demand company CreateSpace built traction and changed the playing field for indies everywhere.

One of the ways that you can draw readers in and establish a platform is through consistent blogging about your topic if you're nonfiction author, or about your writing and other books if you're a fiction author.

I started to create an author platform after hearing about what an author platform was at the 2013 Writers Workshop in Melbourne.

You may use all or none of the above, but the important thing to keep in mind about building and growing an author platform is the end goal: You want to create a network that helps readers discover your books.

(More about how to skip the time - wasting stuff in my post, 7 Ways Authors Waste Time Building Platform.)

Back in 2013, I blogged for The Writing Platform about ten author websites I really liked.

In a blog discussion about author platform, reader Carol commented: «What challenges me is creating my brand.

Penguin, thought to be the second largest trade publisher in the world, is now also one of the largest self - publishing platforms in the world: Author Solutions has published about 190,000 books by about 150,000 authors.

Author Platforms are about who you are and how many people know you in the category for which you write.

Thank you so much for taking a look at our platform As I see Bookworks is based in the US may I add that we actually opened a StreetLib U.S.A company so that any american based author can be paid in dollars, directly by a United States bank with no worries about international taxations or payments.

Although you've probably already included information about your online and social media presence in the author platform section, the online and social media agenda section gets into your more detailed plans.

In this session, speakers will talk about how technology can enable readers and indie authors to connect, and how indie authors can promote their writing with emerging platforms.

As I wrote about over at Trouble the Write Way, an author platform comprises many things: your existing books and audience, your qualifications, your personal connections (especially in the publishing industry), and your online presence.

Katrina, considering the number of books being published each year, there are two things every writer should be concerned about if they want a large audience: 1) putting in the time to build your author platform, and 2) producing a book that really stands out from the crowd in terms of quality.

I'm going to write an article or two about more ideas to build an author platform in the near future.

If you need to learn about craft or building an author platform, I suggest her classes and her book, Rise of the Machine - Human Authors in a Digital World.

This involves putting a call for reviews into the back matter of each Volume, thanking readers, letting them know about upcoming Volumes» release and pre-order dates, and generally sending them to your Author Platform via many links you will provide in each Volume after Volume II.

Establish an author platform (again, months or maybe even years before the release of your book) through a blog / website and sites like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc. and create a network of potential readers and other people in the industry through your author platform who are likely to want to know about, spread the word about, read and / or buy your book.

Corinne Liccketto, Sales and Marketing Manager and Book Publicist with Smith Publicity, spoke specifically about the need for self - published authors to establish for themselves a complete brand, as well as establish their credibility in either a non-fiction platform or as a writer who has believable expertise in that area.

Specializing in New Adult and Young Adult Fiction, We are passionate about assisting authors to build their platform and create a brand that will carry them into the future.

Amazon is still the undisputed leader in terms of sales share for indie authors with about 72 % of income from their platform.

Then I attended a Writers Digest Editors Intensive in Cincinnati where Jane Friedman gave a dynamic talk about self - publishing and author platform.

In this article I'll be talking about the importance of developing your online author platform.

If you just want to be # 1 in your category, you can get there with about 100 sales — as I mention in my more recent material, I think anybody can build a large enough author platform to sell 100 copies to actual readers in under a month, and 100 sales should be enough to get the ball rolling as long as you're also giving away about 1000 ARC copies to get book reviews first).

Nick: What we have in the moment is I do offer premium courses that helps authors build their platform and basically do everything we've talked about today, and do it well without any trial and error.

-LSB-...] Gold weighed in on Thursday about the whole numbers game for writers who blog: The Insanity Behind the Pressure to Have «Numbers» which was in response to agent Rachelle Gardner's post Author Marketing & Platform.

So if you want to grow your author platform, if you want to expand your audience, if you want to connect with your current readers, you need to think about how you can be creating video content to include in your current book marketing mix.

-LSB-...] January 8, 2013 in Self Publishing A recent article on The Creative Penn called «Divide and Conquer: Building an Author Platform by Proxy» got me thinking about the idea of enlisting an intern, or several interns, to help with some -LSB-...]

Many authors believe platform building to be all about increasing sales, but in actuality, the best thing you can do with your platform is show people that you're human.

First of all, it talks about the fact that you do not need an author platform in order to sell books (something that most everyone else says)-- so no Twitter, Facebook and blogging!

Since he finished the first draft of his first novel a year ago, I've immersed myself in all the material I can about publishing, self - publishing, and building an author platform, so that I can support him however possible.

In order to assist indie authors they have launched Reedsy Learning, which is a new learning platform that will enable millions of writers to learn about book... [Read more...]

About Blog It is the mission of Indies Unlimited to celebrate independent authors; to help them build their followings; to provide a platform for members of the independent author community to share and exchange ideas, knowledge, expertise and frustrations; and, for readers and reviewers to become exposed to the amazing depth and array of talent in the indie community.

Atlas is a tool for collaborative writing (currently being used by authors of about two - thirds of the books in our pipeline), one - touch publishing in all formats (including print - on - demand), and an interactive online reading platform that takes full advantage of the digital realm.

In this session, Janet will speak about pitching and publishing to grow your readership and author platform.

Though we first connected through another author platform, I first heard about Mat through Erica Conroy, who told me about his 50K words in a Day projects.

Following the launch of Kindle Worlds (see trailer above), Amazon's platform that lets fan fiction authors sell their stories in the Kindle Store, there is an intense debate about fan fiction and how it shapes self - publishing.

GoodEReader has covered some recent news about social media platforms and the importance of authors establishing themselves online in order to connect with readers, writers, and industry professionals.

Tamblyn went on to speak about how important self - publishing platforms have been in foreign markets where would - be authors may not have access to avenues for publication, notably small niche markets like sub-Saharan Africa, or oppressed cultures where freedom of expression is not as simple as writing a book and having it published and can have serious ramifications for the author.

Some of the ways that Clark encourages authors to build their platforms include starting a blog and devoting serious time to it on a weekly basis, forming an online newsletter about something in the field of the author's own work, taking on freelance writing or editing jobs, anything that will put the author's name in front of the publishing industry, and ultimately, a devoted reading audience.