Learn the difference between the Author Platform, where you present the news and reviews about the author, and your Book Platform.
Finding Author Success: Discovering and Uncovering the Marketing Power Within Your Manuscript
If you don’t look at your writing as a business, and treat is as a business, then you won’t succeed as an author. Just as you plotted your book – the characters, language and plot twists – you need to plot your goals for author success.
So, What’s Your Book About…in 25 Words, Please
If you thought writing a synopsis was hard – try distilling your pitch down to 25 words before you even approach a literary agent or publisher. People are busy, and you only have a few seconds to grab their attention. Your words have to pack a punch that tells the genre, the target readership and the storyline — ALL in 25 little words.
Writers Write. Successful Authors Write a Book Business Plan!
You can’t have success without knowing how to sell your product. A business plan covers all aspects of a product, which, for an author, is the book.
Authors! Three Tips for Keeping Your Marketing Momentum
Most “tried and true” marketing strategies fizzle out because the’re overused. What’s an author to do? Here are three tips to reboot your marketing efforts that won’t take a ton of time or energy, just a little creativity.
Deborah Riley-Magnus, Author, Cold in California
[PODCAST] Gabriel Strickland is whisked from the bizarre accident that caused his final demise to a “holding tank of sorts located in West Hollywood. He learns that he and several other deceased supernatural creatures must await a final judgment for their souls. A society has formed within that helps them all function outside the walls of the holding tank. Eighty creatures, including other awaiting dead vampires, pixies, a legendary Navaho stick man and bothersome leprechauns, struggle together to earn brownie points (against their natures) and wait out what could be centuries of purgatory.”
Deborah Riley-Magnus, Author Success Coach
An informal chat with Deborah Riley Magnus on Author and Book promotion, as well as her upcoming book Author Success 2.0