In this several-part series, we’re going to look at what it means to build a platform, and then once that platform is built, how to use it to market your books. In part three we discuss using your web presence to help grow your platform.
Author: Hallee Bridgeman
With nearly a million sales, Hallee Bridgeman is aUSA TODAY best-selling and award-winning Christian author who writes action-packed romantic suspense focusing on realistic characters who face real-world problems. Her work has been described as everything from refreshing to heart-stopping exciting and edgy. Hallee has served as the Director of the Kentucky Christian Writers Conference, President of the Faith-Hope-Love chapter of the Romance Writers of America, is a member of the American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW), the American Christian Writers (ACW), and Novelists, Inc. (NINC). An accomplished speaker, Hallee has taught and inspired writers around the globe, from Sydney, Australia, to Dallas, Texas, to Portland, Oregon, to Washington, D.C., and all places in between. Hallee loves coffee, campy action movies, and regular date nights with her husband. Above all else, she loves God with all of her heart, soul, mind, and strength; has been redeemed by the blood of Christ; and relies on the presence of the Holy Spirit to guide her.
In this several-part series, we’re going to look at what it means to build a platform, and then once that platform is built, how to use it to market your books. In part one, we define marketing and how it applies to authors and book sales. In part two, we delve into some social media platforms and how to utilize them to help grow your platform:
In this several-part series, we’re going to look at what it means to build a platform, and then once that platform is built, how to use it to market your books. In part one, we define marketing and how it applies to authors and book sales:
I am an indie author, so my deadlines and productions schedules are set years in advance, but they’re set by me. Which means that if I go through a period of conferences and more conferences and conventions followed by Type A flu, pneumonia, strep, and sinus infections that spread through my family, thus knocking me out of any definable work from mid-September to mid-November (what an autumn we had that year!), then the world is not going to collapse around me. However, that also means that I need to get out my dry erase markers and my year-at-a-glance laminated calendars and start shifting things around.
As Christian writers, our goal is to impact the world for Christ through our written words. That’s something Capital Christian Writers Fellowship has been passionate ….
“You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.”~Jodi Picoult
#mondaymotivation
Repeat after me, “I CAN do this.” Because you can.
“I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” Phil 4:13
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I am not at all in a humor for writing; I must write on until I am. ~Jane Austen
Now that my entire book has been written in just action and dialogue, it’s time to go in and layer in thoughts. What is the character thinking and how is it going to drive the scene?
#mondaymotivation
“Start writing no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.” ~Louis L’Amour