Glenn Miller presents Your One - Sentence Book Marketing Plan posted at Career Authors, saying, «Most writers don't an extensive backlist or
an established author platform.
Minus a unique hook and well -
established author platform, I don't see the qualities that make this a «got ta have it.»
It helps to
establish your author platform and lends credibility to the quality of your work.
This group has already taken steps to
establish their Author Platform.
Establish your author platform and audience with our Book Marketing & PR Premier program.
How do late - life writers
establish an author platform?
I don't think blogging on its own will help you sell books, but I do think that it is a good way of
establishing your author platform and helping you to create your fan base.
Linda — I think that a blog and twitter and maybe a site like Goodreads can
establish author platform very well without having to use the increasingly user - unfriendly Facebook.
Many authors are told to start a blog when they first start out to start building their brand and
establishing their author platform.
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.
Our third finalist, Bolko, has already taken very important steps to
establish his author platform.
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Establishing your Author Platform
If you don't take steps to
establish an author platform or book marketing plan, you'll miss the ship.
Obtaining book reviews in advance of publication will help
establish your author platform among readers, as well as add to word - of - mouth promotion of your book.
Establishing an author platform is about ensuring your book is not just «published,» but finds readers and has an impact in their lives.
It shows how you can use a once - a-week blog and some basic SEO knowledge to
establish your author platform.
Not exact matches
ScienceOpen is very successfully putting Open Access into practice by benefitting from well
established OA - services such as PMC, integrating all facettes of it into one
platform and create a trusted open scientific environment not only for
authors but also for all other stakeholders in the communities.
We'll discuss metrics that help you make informed and meaningful decisions about how to best spend your time, and what advanced
platform - building looks like for an
established author.
In nonfiction, she's looking for
authors with
established platforms who are writing books in the following categories: biography, food, gender issues, health, history, literary journalism, music, pop culture, science, travel, and relationships.
Unlike traditional publishers — who only take on a book if it has a chance of doing really well, either because the
author has an
established platform or because the book is in a very popular genre — I work on a lot of projects that probably won't be as successful.
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.
Details: An international blogging competition from the NUHA foundation
established «as a
platform to debate issues of education and development, and to provide an opportunity for
authors to be published and to develop their self - confidence».
In nonfiction, she's looking for
authors with
established platforms who are writing books in the following categories: biography, food, gender issues, health, history, literary journalism, music, pop culture, relationships, science, travel.
This site has experienced an incredible amount of growth over the past few years and has become an
established platform for book lovers and
authors around the world.
Author Platforms are hard to
establish and take a LOT of time.
The current wave of traditional and self - publishing success includes an
author platform that is preferably
established during the drafting stage of your book.
This post is part of my ongoing series on
author & book promotion, which is aimed at helping fellow
authors build their audience and
establish a
platform to promote their work.
Once you take the time to
establish an
Author Central page, you have a valuable marketing asset located directly on the world's busiest book retailing
platform.
It's not a book about building
platform, although it includes my whole step - by - step «how to blog» series and tons of info on how to use Twitter, Goodreads, Pinterest and other social media sites to
establish your
author presence on the Web before you take the publishing plunge.
E-junkie is a well -
established service for
authors who want to sell directly to their audiences on their own
platforms.
Building your
author mailing list is a key aspect of
establishing a long term
platform as an
author.
With most agents, editors and publishers expecting new
authors to have an already
established author's
platform, it simply makes more sense to build that
platform with real readers who enjoy your stuff before considering the traditional publishing route.
That's not my first recommendation, because I still think new
authors with no
platform (and even most
established authors) will earn more in KU.
«We connected with Operation E-book Drop through indie
author Edward C. Patterson and Smashwords to provide these books to troops abroad, and readers here can download the e-books to any
platform that the
author has already
established, no matter what device they choose to use.»
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.
He's not an
established author, but he used our
platform to release this beautiful ebook which has sold over $ 20,000 worth in the first five days of our launch.
While the
platform is aimed at
established names in the industry, self - published
authors are welcome as long as they have the kind of following that would support hosting an event.
As a result, both Susan and Glenn had already
established their «
author platform» for their first books while Bolko had a lot of work to do to catch up — book marketing is not an overnight ordeal; it takes time to build your promotional
platform so you can successfully call upon it when necessary.
The New
Author Platform allows not only well -
established authors, but unknown, first - time beginners to do an end run around the conservative gate - keepers and reach readers directly.
The blog coaching program is perfect for
established authors or writers who are getting ready to publish and want to build a
platform.
If you're setting out to
establish an
author brand, then images may be your best friend — both on your website and on your social media
platform.
So when an
author sits down to make this difficult decision [of where to publish their book], they have to weigh the pros and cons of that decision... I think it's very disruptive to an
author's career to go exclusive anywhere, because it really takes years for an
author to
establish a readership and
platform... One of the problems with exclusivity is, it forces
authors to make this artificially imposed either - or situation about their distribution.
I've intentionally focused here on opportunities for first book
authors and those that don't have large budgets or an
established platform.
Typically, the royalty rates paid to
authors are
established by the self publishing
platform used, are non-negotiable and depend on costs to produce and distribute the book or ebook.
These are the cutting - edge services that publishers should be seeking to maintain book discoverability and grow publishing
platforms for their
authors, while learning more about their customers and
establishing long - term reader relationships.
To provide a
platform to do so, I have
established The Indy
Author Facebook page to engage with you — please Follow me on this voyage!
Once you've
established yourself as an indie
author and started to build a
platform with plenty of positive reviews, you can explore your options with expanded distribution.
Archway Publishing can help you build the pieces you need to
establish an online
author platform.
Fishcake Publications has been set up as a small, independent publisher primarily focused on helping
authors, whether already
established or unpublished, get their work into the digital realm on as many eBook
platforms and formats as possible, therefore maximising their potential exposure and making their work accessible for the general public worldwide.
These features below should be included on
author websites which are important to help
establish credibility, pre-eminence and trust with your audience while building the book marketing footprint and
author platform.