If you have yet to do so, pick your social media channels to invest in. It is best to figure out where your potential readers like to socialise. Our author platform social media guide breaks down the figures for social media use.
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Get yourself a stronger sense of the reader you are targeting by working out the details of who this (fictional) person is. Do this like you would develop a character. This person you just made up should typify your ideal reader. Now you know them, you can tailor your platform […]
Platform Building: Build an ideal reader profile
As a writer, every chance you get to direct someone to your website or ask them to follow you on social media is one step closer to reaching a big audience. This is where quality business cards come in. Always have some crisp fresh business cards you can hand out […]
Platform building tip: Business cards work
Pick an author you love. Ideally, one that your ideal readers would also love. Write an honest book review. If nothing else, you will signal to readers that you share their tastes in authors which might bode well for your own books. This is best posted on your blog and […]
Platform Building: Review a favourite author
What are the most productive authors and bloggers putting out on their email lists? How can you learn to do the same? Easy – sign up to their email list. Use a new email address if you have to but find out what other authors are sending out and then […]
Platform building tip: Free mailing list tips
One way to get discovered by readers and fellow authors is to seek out author blogs. Once there take the time to leave a great comment, good feedback, or a solid review. If you have been blogging for any length of time you will know how hard it is to […]
Platform Building: Give great comments
The humble blog is a powerful author platform building tool. It gives you somewhere for your social media followers and mailing list subscribers to come to engage with you. If you do not have a blog, you have a number of options: The best solution: Inexpensive hosting and your own […]
Author Platforms: You do have a blog right?
Before you can develop a network of thousands of people hanging on to your every work, you need to start by establishing friendships. At its heart, an author’s platform is simply a large collection of people with whom you have built some degree of relationship. This first tip is simple […]
Platform building tip #1 – develop friendships
We have a new and totally free resource for writers and authors launching soon – weekly tips and prompts for author platform building. These prompts and tips will publish at 10am (London time) each Saturday. So far, we have scheduled tips well into next year. You can find the archive […]
Weekly platform building tips and prompts
In this post, I will try to make the case that Author Buzz UK is a suitable host for the distributed directory of conversations started on OpenMentions.com. What is OpenMentions? OpenMentions is a project to create a distributed directory of conversations on the IndieWeb. OpenMentions is something I started but […]
Possibilities with OpenMentions and Author Buzz
At last, we are back with part three of our series taking a look at everything you need to know about self-publishing. In this instalment, we will look at services, marketing, and book cover design. Previous instalments Services for self-publishers In part two, we looked at topics such as proofreading […]
Self-Publishing: Everything you need to know – part 3
Maus, by Art Spiegelman, is a graphic novel about the Holocaust. McMinn County School District is a school district headquartered in Athens, Tennessee.MacMinn decided they did not like Maus and banned it. MacMinn claimed the ban was due to profanities (swearing) used in Maus. However, there have been many loud […]