The Fourth Week of Book Highlight of the Week... Get Known before the Book Deal by Christina Katz

As creatives we hear so much about building your author platform before your book deal is signed off on. As for myself, this freaked me out early on until I began to immerse myself in the expert knowledge of those that have experienced these trenches before my writing and publishing journey began. Don't throw up your hands in despair and say, "but there are so many books to choose from! I give up!"

Building one’s platform is not as difficult as it sounds. Start out by writing book reviews and post them on your blog, Amazon, and Barnes and Noble. Conduct interviews of authors, publishers, editors, agents, and illustrators and post these too on your blog. 

Still sounds daunting? I highly recommend Christina Katz’s book, Get Known Before the Book Deal published by Writer’s Digest Books.

Rather say, I'm going to purchase myself this weeks book highlight of the week...

Get Known before the Book Deal 

by Christina Katz

Contents:

Sell Your First Book & Develop a 

Successful and Sustainable Writing Career

Before you can land a book deal—before you can even attract the interest of agents and editors—you need to be visible. How do you become visible? You develop a platform, or a way of reaching your readers. Everybody can develop a platform, and this book shows you how to do it while you're still writing.

This book offers:

• A step-by-step approach to creating, growing, and nurturing a platform
• An economical approach to self-promotion (no need to spend thousands)
• A clear way to uncover your strengths and weaknesses as an author
• The strategies that are essential (or not) to online promotion
• A philosophy of authorship that leaves you confident, empowered, and equally partnered with agents, editors, and publishers (instead of waiting to be discovered)
• A diverse set of tools and methods for getting known (not just web-based tools or ideas for extroverts)

Be prepared to earmark and highlight Christina's book as you read and refer back to again and again! A truly must have for your author marketing toolbox!

We'd enjoy hearing from you.... What action steps do you take each week to build your platform?

Learn more about Christina through my in-depth interview. 

Visit Christina and her offerings at her website.






Thank you for visiting!

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Best wishes,
Donna M. McDine
Multi Award-winning Children's Author

Ignite curiosity in your child through reading!

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Powder Monkey ~ May 2013 ~ Guardian Angel Publishing, Inc. ~ 2015 Purple Dragonfly Book Award Historical Fiction 1st Place, Story Monster Approved and Reader's Favorite Five Star Review
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