This article touches upon a very important
fact about author platforms: It's not about going down a checklist of tools to have; it's about how you use those tools to make real, human connections.
Not exact matches
I've detailed the importance of an
author platform before on The Write Life, and highlighted the
fact that it's not all
about social media.
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!
In
fact, I've recently been questioned twice
about whether a newbie with NO book on the publishing horizon should bother to start working on a
platform and more specifically on an
author website.
Many aspiring
authors believe that
platform is all
about social media, but in
fact Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, and Google + are only small pieces of the
author platform pie.
Passig's observations on comparative
author interfaces at these digital
platforms, in
fact, reflected what she discovered
about working with publishing houses» workflows, she said.