7 reasons
why your author platform should include building a reader AND writer community (and I bet some will surprise you!)
Not exact matches
Bonuses include:
Platform Video Jumpstart Program (six sessions), How to Write a Winning Book Proposal (two e-books and two audio sessions),
Why NOW is the Best Time Ever to Be an
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This pattern may help explain
why people make better choices at home than when eating out, says Professor Dubé, senior
author of the study and scientific director of the McGill World
Platform for Health and Economic Convergence.
Author platform — what is it,
why is it so important, and how you do you create one?
You might be wondering
why you need to consider yet another
author's
platform.
But having created and / or maintained websites on many
platforms, generally, WordPress is the first solution I recommend to
authors who aren't super tech - savvy — here's
why:
This month we are using the free 30 - day trial version of gotowebinar.com, and inviting you to join our offer of our free webinar, «Your
Author Platform:
Why You Need One and How to Get Started».
At the Ask the Lit Coach website, the post «Ask The Lit Coach: The Difference Between Brand and
Platform and
Why Every
Author Needs Both» (June 2012) is answered by Erin Reel with the following summary:
Why it's so important to start building your
author platform before publication (and the best ways to do it)
Jim and Bryan also chatted about the Dear
Author lawsuit, the Guardian reviewer stalking piece, five marketing mistakes most beginning fiction writers make,
why Amazon is doing the world a favor, and several new features for the iBooks
platform.
So with that in mind,
why don't we let Rachel Thompson tell us The Reason Your
Author Platform Matters.
Here's
why... While there's no doubt the strength of the writing is very important, other factors contribute to an overall successful book — not the least of which is being a professional
author who has a «
platform» on which to jump - start marketing efforts after publication.
I'm not an affiliate, so don't worry I won't be pressuring you to buy anything, but the good news is that Mike's free video does an excellent job of explaining what an
Author's
Platform is and
why you need one.
Part 1,» we defined
author platform and
why it's important.
With the abundance of
platforms that connect
authors to qualified freelance professionals, this could simply be a matter of reinventing the wheel:
why pay full - time employees for a job that others are doing very well online?
We discuss the reasons
why some
authors, specifically, those writing YA, should consider using YouTube as a social
platform and makes suggestions on how to engage within YouTube.
Why there isn't a specific blueprint or guide for
authors to follow when building their
platform.
This week social media guru diva Kristen Lamb devoted a whole week of blogposts to explaining the reasons
why «blogs are probably THE BEST use of an
author's time when it comes to building an
author platform using social media.»
Self - publishing makes a lot of sense for those mid-list
authors that have a following: when they publish on Amazon (and other
platforms) they have a fan base that buys their books immediately — thus shooting it up in the Kindle rankings, a process that feeds on itself and ensures that those in the top 100 are always (more or less) the same ones...
Why?
Why knowing our target audience is so important to building an
author platform and selling more books.
This is
why it's important that you start building your
author platform — your network of fans, followers, and email subscribers — long before you publish.
For the most part, the lack of long term planning, goals and purpose also plays a part of
why writers and
authors begin using this
platform.
Please welcome my fellow Booktrope
author and speaker Daryl Rothman to the blog as he shares about
why authors should build their writer
platform.
However, if you want to take it up a level, you could ask them to send you a signed copy to include in the prize you're offering, but that's unlikely if you only have a website selling your own book — which is
why it's much better marketing to build up a genre - specific
platform, rather than just an
author website.
If you build
platform only as a means to an end, it generally fails, and that's
why I tend to get cynical when
authors try to do it only in service of securing a book deal.
This is
why it's so important to use your
author name as your username on all social media
platforms and to keep your banner and header images and avatars consistent as well.
This is a large part of
why I reject works... lack of proof, and lack of
author platform.
This is
why I suggest that self published
authors use as many no or low cost self publishing
platforms, services and tools as possible.
Dana Sitar presents The Ultimate Guide to Writing Your Manifesto posted at A Writer's Bucket List, saying, «Hone your self - publishing skills and build your
author platform by creating a manifesto ebook that tells people who you are, what you do, and
why you do it.»
-- Building your own «
platform» which includes your blog or website and social media profiles — Connecting with fans of your work and converting them to zealous evangelists — Professional quality design in everything you do — A winning «
author story» that answers
why you write, your purpose and intention.
Why is an
Author Platform Important?
In a Thursday morning Digital Book World panel, bestselling self - published
author Hugh Howey addressed
why he moved from Amazon's exclusive program — KDP Select — to distribution across multiple
platforms, even though it meant reduced revenues from his Amazon sales.
In this video post, I share with you what an
author platform is, and
why you need one if you plan to succeed as an
author.
Why is it different from Apple iBooks
Author or other
platforms?
There's another shady reason
why an
author might jump on the free bandwagon, at least on another
platform, and that's Amazon's price match policy.
Regardless of which comes first,
authors still need to sell their own books and
why we need an
author's
platform.
I'm not going to go into all the details of
why and how here — I covered that in my previous post on How To Build Your
Author Platform — but suffice to say, once your book is out there and you're looking for people to buy it, you'll be glad you didn't skip this step.
Jordan Smith presents
Why They Won't Subscribe: Troubleshooting Your Mailing List Offer posted at Fix My Story, saying, «Having an offer to entice people to sign up for your
author mailing list is one of the best ways to grow your
author platform.
Check back on Thursday for our next few points on
why you want to blog to increase your online
author platform.
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Is that
why so many
authors use their
platform?
Part 2 of 2 Last post we gave you several reasons
why you might want to blog to increase your online
author platform.
That's
why they want
authors to have huge social medial
platforms — you dear
author, will do most of the marketing work.
Far too many
authors don't start thinking about building their
platforms and promoting themselves (and their books) until the day their book releases — or even months later, when they've sold nothing and are wondering
why!
Why You Should Market to Grow Your
Author Platform - Not to Sell Books — The Book Designer buff.ly / 2tXPBZD #amwriting
Author YOU, an interactive guide and workbook, explains that a platform starts with a statement of fact: why the author wrote the
Author YOU, an interactive guide and workbook, explains that a
platform starts with a statement of fact:
why the
author wrote the
author wrote the book.
She gives the reasons
why in her article «6 Reasons Google + Beats Facebook for
Author Platform Building.»
Spencer, that's
why I acknowledge in the article that some
authors build a
platform simply by publishing but, unfortunately, that will only work for a very very small percentage of
authors, so it simply seems smart to me to do something to increase our chances of success.
Although the statement in the petition might be short, I believe you can research out of your curiosity
why self - publishing must be recognized as a viable and profitable
platform for
authors rather than insignificant vicissitudes in publishing.
And that's
why I wonder if some sort of liaison doesn't need to be devised, able to engage with any
platform - based contingency of this kind and work to mitigate the damage that every
author - businessperson experiences when caught in the crossfire.