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There are more opportunities for you to elaborate on your author platform in the promotion section of your proposal.

The always brilliant Jane Friedman offers the definitive word on author platforms in her post, A Definition of Author Platform.

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As the network seems poised for change — recently, LinkedIn announced that it will soon allow anyone to publish content on its platform (much as LinkedIn Influencers do now)-- I talked with David Gowel, CEO at RockTech, and author of The Power in a Link: Open Doors, Close Deals, and Change the Way You Do Business Using LinkedIn.

Speaking of a system bulging with debt protruding from every crevice, Jim Quinn's Burning Platform featured a must - read article yesterday in which the author has discovered that the Loan - To - Value Ratio on Fannie Mae - issued mortgages is now at its highest level in history — nearly 10 % higher than at the peak of housing bubble 1.0:

And this chokehold not only affects the inventory you find on Christian bookstore shelves, but which books are contracted by publishers, what content gets edited in the writing and editing process, and the degree of freedom authors feel they have to speak on their own blogs and platforms.

Some practical points: If you're just starting out, some opportunities that make a lot of sense for platform - building include: writing guest posts for popular bloggers who share a similar audience, writing a regular column for a newspaper or online magazine, seeking out speaking gigs (paid or unpaid), participating in conferences (for networking opportunities as well as exposure to new, inspiring ideas), using social media to share your message, and requesting interviews with popular authors / speakers / leaders to feature on your blog.

Tuned To Baseball, his wife, Lulu, further revealed that he was Gone With the Wind author Margaret Mitchell's paperboy in Atlanta, succeeded Marty Marion at second base on the Northside Terrors, shot a hole in one, had a racehorse named after him, sang a duet with Pearl Bailey, appeared on a TV platform with Billy Graham and was baptized in the Jordan River.

«The idea that someone would cyberbully themselves first gained public attention with the tragic suicide of 14 - year - old Hannah Smith in 2013 after she anonymously sent herself hurtful messages on a social media platform just weeks before she took her own life,» said Sameer Hinduja, Ph.D., study author, a professor in FAU's School of Criminology and Criminal Justice in the College for Design and Social Inquiry, and co-director of the Cyberbullying Research Center.

«Our work demonstrates one of the most advanced designs to date of a self - contained flapping - winged aerial robot with bat morphology that is able to perform autonomous flight,» explained Alireza Ramezani, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Illinois who is the first author of the cover article, «A Biomimetic Robotic Platform to Study Flight Specializations of Bats,» appearing in AAAS Science Robotics on February 1.

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«The ability to suture a thread - based diagnostic device intimately in a tissue or organ environment in three dimensions adds a unique feature that is not available with other flexible diagnostic platforms,» said Sameer Sonkusale, Ph.D., corresponding author on the paper and director of the interdisciplinary Nano Lab in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Tufts University's School of Engineering.

«It's going to be a new platform of therapy, not just another cholesterol - lowering drug,» says Nicholas Leeper, a vascular biologist at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, and senior author on the new study.

Authors don't need to pay a platform or a journal to host their papers or ideas, he says: «All they need do is post it on the Web or deposit it in their institutional repository.»

By identifying haplotypes from single - molecule reads, the authors were able to construct phylogenetic trees of the leukemic cells in a single patient, something that could only be done on the 454 platform.

For instance, he was a Lead Author in the Working Group II of the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a Coordinating Lead Author of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) and Global Biodiversity Outlook.

More specifically, using digital scans of paper maps based on aerial imagery acquired by the U.S. Geological Survey, along with modern - day satellite imagery from a variety of platforms, the authors digitized a total of 49 maps and images from which they calculated changes in the terminus positions, ice speed, calving rates and ice front advance and retreat rates from 34 glaciers in this region over the period 1955 - 2015.

Lectora Online has all the benefits of an online authoring tool, for instance the ability to collaborate on «titles» from all corners of the earth, but so do all of the platforms in this review.

The author first seeks to provide a sense of who Krishnamurti was, not just as a teacher on a platform, but as a person in real life.

If your company has already invested in an eLearning authoring tool, make sure to look for an eLearning developer that has produced samples on the platform you employ.

Thereby the focus lies on the development of new tools and innovative prototypes in the fields of learning management systems, content management, performance support, authoring tools, Web 2.0 applications as well as web - based and mobile platforms.

Two years later, thanks in part to easy - to - use platforms like Createspace and Kindle Direct, authors are no longer forced to rely on traditional publishers — the tables have turned.

«Dr. Judith Briles» latest book, Author YOU, is a truly helpful, step - by - step guide on figuring out what an author platform IS and then making it happen in a biAuthor YOU, is a truly helpful, step - by - step guide on figuring out what an author platform IS and then making it happen in a biauthor platform IS and then making it happen in a big way.

One of the most common and affordable all - in - one platforms is WordPress, and if you need help using it for the first time, read my recent post on how to set up a basic author website using WordPress.

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.

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.

Publishing expert Alan Rinzler explained in an interview at Forbes, «By definition, the old model of the author platform was the writer's public visibility and reputation that the publisher's publicity department used to promote and sell the book... We insisted on a stellar track record in book sales and appearances on radio and TV.

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

[dropcap style =» flat» size =» 5 ″] I [/ dropcap] n every round of author survey results — from Digital Book World's «What Authors Want» last January, to Dr. Florian Geuppert's report to us last week in Frankfurt on his study of 1,800 European authors using his Hamburg - based Books on Demand platform — entrepreneurial authors tell us that creative freedom and control of their business are top reasons for self - publAuthors Want» last January, to Dr. Florian Geuppert's report to us last week in Frankfurt on his study of 1,800 European authors using his Hamburg - based Books on Demand platform — entrepreneurial authors tell us that creative freedom and control of their business are top reasons for self - publauthors using his Hamburg - based Books on Demand platform — entrepreneurial authors tell us that creative freedom and control of their business are top reasons for self - publauthors tell us that creative freedom and control of their business are top reasons for self - publishing.

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In addition to ghostwriting, editing and script coverage services for authors, I offer media relations consulting on topics such as how to attract and maximize PR opportunities, how to give stellar interviews, what to wear to a photo shoot, and how to use social media platforms effectively.

As long as you keep in mind the goals, rules, and best practices we've mentioned here, you'll find that you can make steady progress on building up your own author platform.

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).

I've seen agents decide to represent certain authors, in part, because of those authors» platforms, including their presence on social media.

In fact, I'll devote endless space on my vast social media platforms to advancing its agenda, and I'll gladly rub shoulders with a bunch of venerated big name authors whose opinions are aligned with mine.

The second generation platform launched in early 2013 and focuses on getting indie authors to submit their books for inclusion into the Nook bookstore.

For a limited time, the Story2Go app is free in the Apple App Store, and despite the time that the company has producing and distributing books on behalf of authors, the price to distribute is still only a one - time $ 99 fee for the first platform, and $ 149 for multiple app stores.

Bella Andre, Lucy Kevin, Barbara Freethy, and HM Ward have signed on to allow their popular titles to be included in the platform, meaning the fans of those authors» works can now publish and sell their own adaptations of the characters and story lines that spoke to them.

The latest author in this mold is 37 - year - old Hugh Howey, whose dystopian sci - fi novel Wool was first published as a series of e-novellas on the Kindle platform.

Mashable wrote that Booktrack «debuted as an iOS app focused on professional authors like Salman Rushdie; a total of 40 titles sold more than 250,000 downloads,» but then pivoted in 2013 to become a platform where «writers can embed songs from a catalogue of 20,000 licensed audio files, adding mood music, ambient audio and sound effects to play in tune with story lines, paced to a user's reading speed.»

Look at the impact that a few sites already have on Indie Authors, some authors pray for luck in getting placement in the latest «Bookbub / ENT / POI / Freebooksy / etc / etc» because those platforms have figured out how to market since «Select didn't work for me» or «Countdown didn't work for me» or «Facebook only goes to 16 % of my fans list&Authors, some authors pray for luck in getting placement in the latest «Bookbub / ENT / POI / Freebooksy / etc / etc» because those platforms have figured out how to market since «Select didn't work for me» or «Countdown didn't work for me» or «Facebook only goes to 16 % of my fans list&authors pray for luck in getting placement in the latest «Bookbub / ENT / POI / Freebooksy / etc / etc» because those platforms have figured out how to market since «Select didn't work for me» or «Countdown didn't work for me» or «Facebook only goes to 16 % of my fans list».

Interesting post; my own next blog was planned to contain commentary on a writers conference session I attended in which a couple of agents expounded on the importance of platform to both non-fiction authors and novelists.

Because it can be such a challenge to find hours in the day to give writing projects the attention they deserve, any available time is often spent solely on writing, and not on a long - term approach to building an author platform.

I'm in promotion and I work with both traditional and POD authors and you are so dead on with the comment regarding «pre-existing platform».

Author platform can be a tough concept to grasp, but Jane Friedman describes it well in this comment above that appeared on her blog.

She did become my confidante and mentor, and when the timing was right, I was thrilled that she jumped at the chance to present me to Lisa Hagan, literary agent, who signed me on the spot (this was after I self - published my first three books, developed a large author platform, sexual abuse advocacy, signed with a (now - defunct) hybrid publisher, wrote another book, directed an imprint, and have two works in progress and another series in the hopper).

This week also marks the fifth anniversary of the launch of Kindle in the UK, the platform that has allowed hundreds of thousands of authors to independently publish and whose self - publishing arm has been growing substantially year - on - year.

Nailing your author platform on social media can be summed up in one phrase, «be social», which means:

In order to be considered, authors must publish their works on the Smashwords Self - Publishing platform * for free and fill out our submission form, including their library card number.

There's a lot of work involved in successfully selling on these other platforms, but a handful of authors rank Kobo, Google Play, and Apple as a significant source of their income.

In order to be an actual GUIDE and not just a list, part of this chapter should include annotations giving pros and cons of authors» activity on each platform and who the leaders are on each.