Sentences with phrase «know about author platform»

Jason Garcia tells you everything you need to know about author platform.

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One of the first things you need to know about building and maintaining your author platform is how to connect with readers.

I asked Giacomo to tell me something that nobody knows about his company and he stated «I want authors and booklovers to know about our ecommerce platform that enables them to sell books online.

I mean, sure they'll publish a book about prayer if the author has the credentials, platform, and, preferably, thousands of church members to help catapult sales, but if a simple living recipe book about losing weight and saving your marriage while decluttering your home and raising happy kids came along by a Christian author with a huge cooking blog platform, they won't say no.

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

Since I know a lot about writing and painting, the fickle worlds of publishing and fine art, and have gotten pretty damn good at internet marketing, platform building, and online sales, it's really easy for me to help struggling artists and authors figure out what their problems are and get them earning enough money to quit their jobs and focus on being creative geniuses that change the 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.

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!

And that's what building an author platform is about — getting people to know and like you, so they can make an emotional connection with you.

Whether or not you currently have an account, there are a few things you should know about navigating Amazon's Kindle platform most effectively as a published author, particularly... [Read more...]

These documents show just how little authors and publishers know about the distribution platforms some of us rely upon to get our books into the hands of our readers.

If you are an eBook author signed with the Amazon Kindle Digital Publishing Select Platform (KDP Select), you will already know about the option to list your book on Amazon as a free item for up to five days.

No matter what your feelings are about that, if you have books listed for sale on Amazon.com and you're not taking advantage of their Author Central platform, you're shooting yourself in the feet.

Traditional commercial publishers now want to know about your «author platform.»

If you are an eBook author signed with the Amazon Kindle Digital Publishing Select Platform (KDP Select), you will already know about the option to list your book on Amazon...

Nick contacted us awhile back after discovering the BW blog and asked to share some ideas and resources he thought would be helpful to indie authors confronting the digital aspects of their platform (you know, all that fun stuff we're always writing about, websites, SM, etc.)... [Read More]

Nick contacted us awhile back after discovering the BW blog and asked to share some ideas and resources he thought would be helpful to indie authors confronting the digital aspects of their platform (you know, all that fun stuff we're always writing about, websites, SM, etc.) especially their author blog.

But, I knew next to nothing about how to market it and build an «author's platform.»

The Guardian picked up the story and talked about how publishers chase famous people for existing platforms, while lesser known authors can't get by.

The phrase author platform is increasingly ubiquitous in the publishing industry, but essentially, it boils down to who knows you, how they know you, and the things they know about you.