Imagine your book is in the world, and it’s something of a masterpiece. It keeps getting heralded as a breakthrough in its space, a gift. Now imagine that everyone who buys your book sits down with it and starts reading.
As a writer, whether you’re working on nonfiction or fiction, one of the biggest challenges you face is building an audience. Without readers, you won’t have the benefit of early feedback on your work. You likely won’t be able to
Once you’ve begun building your email list, it’s important to begin sending your subscribers useful content. This could be a blog post, a podcast episode, a video, or some other form of content. (A fun way to approach this is
Most writers know the importance of building a platform—an audience of people who are interested in your work and will buy your book when it releases. What writers may not know is the best way to do this is by
Often attracting an audience (aka building a platform) feels difficult because we misunderstand its purpose. We think it’s about: Sending an email or writing a blog post every week Coming up with something brilliant to say on a consistent basis
A little while back I saw this post in the BookCamp Facebook group: This caught my attention, so I reached out to George to hear more of his story. It turns out, George, his wife, and four children live in
Blogging is a great way for writers to build an audience, but how do you get people to pay attention to your posts? There’s nothing more demoralizing than working for hours on a post only to hear crickets after hitting
A couple weeks ago I took my son downhill skiing for the first time. Everything went really well, and after five hours of skiing, the perfect way to cap off our adventure, I thought, would be two piping hot cups
Recently I sent out a survey to writers in our BookCamp community and asked them, “When it comes to the whole process of writing, building an audience, and getting published, what’s the biggest challenge, frustration, or obstacle you are struggling
Blog reader Ryan Atkins from Flat on My Back recently emailed this question about platform: “In a recent post of yours, you mentioned having at least 1,000 email subscribers before moving forward with publishing. This was surprising to me as
Grant Baldwin is the founder of The Speaker Lab, a training company that helps public speakers learn how to find and book speaking gigs. Through his popular podcast The Speaker Lab and flagship coaching program Booked and Paid to Speak,
For a lot of people book proposals are intimidating and scary. I wonder how many books don’t happen just because the prospect of a book proposal is so daunting. Often writers don’t know what goes into a book proposal. What