I work with a lot of authors who begin working on a book project because they feel passionate about their subject. Not all of them perceive themselves as writers. Amazingly, the more strongly they feel about their topic or about accomplishing a goal by writing and publishing their book, the more quickly they tend to finish writing. If you feel…
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Publishing Mentor Tip: Start Building Your Author's Platform Today
If you look back over the last 10 days you’ll find a series of posts about building an author’s platform. (It starts here.) If you’ve never done anything to build an author’s platform, you probably feel pretty overwhelmed about now. If you had never heard of an author’s platform prior to the beginning of this series, you might want to…
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6 Ways to Build Author Platform Using Spoken Words
Most writers like to write rather than speak. I don’t mean they are all reclusive. I mean they tend to consider themselves more adept at writing than speaking. They say, I’m a writer, not a speaker,” and they may even claim to possess a fear of public speaking—along with many other people. Yet, speaking offers writers and authors one of…
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Techniques for Building an Author’s Platform with Your Website
Every author or aspiring author must have a website. This becomes your online home where your readers, prospective book buyers and the media can find you. How many visitors come to your website on a regular basis provides another useful statistic to quote in a nonfiction book proposal. However, if you plan on self-publishing your book, you will want to…
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4 Tips for Building Author Platform with a Blog
In today’s publishing world, traditional publishers expect every aspiring author to have a blog. Blogs have become essential platform—promotion—elements. Why is this so? Because by posting content related to your book to a blog on a consistent basis, you increase your Google ranking in your subject area. That means that someone searching for information on your topic will find your…
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