Marketing & Creating a Platform

Maybe you're a published author. Maybe you're a writer trying to get published. Either way, you're going to need a platform. If you're looking to build a platform, you've come to the right place!

Also, check out our links at Social Media.

What is a Platform & How to Build One

How to Market Yourself as an Author Before Your Book Comes Out

Tips to Promote Yourself as an Author, Before and After Publication

After the Book Deal

The New Author's Platform: What Writer's Need to Know

Julie Hedlund Busts Myths of Author Platforms

Successful Platform Building Doesn't Have to be About You

Why You Should Market to Grow Your Author Platform - Not to Sell Books

A Definition of Author Platform

Determining Our Own Value & Worth: It's Valuable & Worth It!

Questions About Author Platform

7 Benefits to Growing Author Platform Before You Write Your Book

Email Lists

How to Use a Time Machine to Create Your Author Platform

7 Tips for Effective Emails

Anatomy of an Email Appeal: 10 Simple Steps

10 Ways to Build Your Subscriber List BEFORE Your Book Comes Out

5 Myths About Email Marketing

Email Marketing or Social Media? Writers Need Both

Marketing & Promotion

The Essential First Step for New Authors: Book Reviews, not Sales

What the Art of Storytelling Can Teach Us about Marketing

Radio 101 for Authors: How to Get on the Air and Shine Once You are There

50 Surprisingly Simple Ways to Promote Your Book

Bring on the Swag! Marketing Your Picture Book with Hazel Mitchell

10 Things Authors Need to Stop Doing on Social Media Immediately

Life Post-Publication

World's Shortest Book Marketing Plan

Josh Funk Shares Powerhouse Marketing Strategies

The Ultimate Guide to Book Marketing

Essential Marketing Tactics for Children's Authors

Books Clubs: The Human Touch in Marketing

Set up Amazon Author Central

Beyond the Book Launch Party

How to Promote a Young Adult Novel on Social Media

7 Ways to Market Books to Children

Book Trailers

Making a Simple Book Trailer Using iMovie

Katya Stec: Book Trailers & Narration Service for Authors (sample reels here)

Launching a Book

71 Ways to Market and Promote Your Book

Timeline and Checklist for YA or MG Book Release

Tricks and Tips for a Successful Book Launch Party

What to Expect When You're Expecting a Debut

14 Ways to Crash Your Book Launch

3 Things Your Traditional Publisher is Unlikely to Do

18 Ideas for a Successful Book Launch

Don't Stop with the Book Launch

Bookstore Events

Top Ten Tips for Book Publicity Tours

How to Organize a Book Launch Party

How to Talk to a Bookseller: A 10-Step Guide for Authors

How to Set up a Book Tour: Part 1

Reaching Readers: Engaging Kids at Book Events

Giveaways to Market a Book

How to Use Goodreads to Sell More Books

Use Goodreads and LibraryThing to Give Away Free Books

Courses

Video Idiot Boot Camp with Katie Davis If you're a writer, you need to be making videos. Think it's hard? Well, Katie Davis assures us that it is not, in her Video Boot Camp!

Making a Living

How Writers Can Earn More

Julie Hedlund's- How To Make Money As a Writer

Books

How To Promote Your Children's Book by Katie Davis

Create Your Writer Platform, by Chuck Sambuchino

Debut Year Groups

Epic Eighteens: PB authors/illustrators debuting in 2018

Electric Eighteens: MG & YA authors debuting in 2018

Notable Nineteens: PB authors/illustrators debuting in medium & large publishers in 2019

Picture Book Buzz: PB authors & illustrators debuting in 2019

Novel Nineteens: MG & YA authors debuting in 2019