Author Platforms: You do have a blog right?

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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 web address (superwriter.com, amazingwriter.co.uk, or whatever). 20i is great in that they offer specialised WordPress hosting and amazing support (we use them). Cost: extremely reasonable. Full control.

A good solution: Get a free Author Buzz UK blog. Cost: free. Built-in promotion and community.

Another solution: Any other blog hosting service like WordPress.com, blogger.com, or Tumblr.com. Cost: free.

For more platform building insights check our full and free Author Platform guidebook.

About Matthew Brown

Matthew is a writer, web dev, and geek from Kent (UK). He is the founder and current chair of Thanet Creative as well as head geek for Author Buzz. His ambitions include seeing a film or TV series based on something he wrote. Matt is also responsible for fixing stuff on AuthorBuzz.co.uk when it breaks.

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