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Thursday, September 10, 2015

The Authors Platform Book Review and Tour (Sage Blog Tours)

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About the Book:

The Author’s Platform' will help you create, understand and use a powerful author platform to sell books!Social Media and Wordpress Consultant Barb Drozdowich will steer you through the technology behind book marketing without all the techno-speak.

She has helped many authors just like you build an author platform that engages readers and builds sales.

This book will help you decode the mystery behind building a powerful author brand and navigating the social media platforms essential to publishing success. The Author’s Platform' teaches you why you need the various facets of the author platform to build visibility.

Barb uses a simple analogy, Operation Book, to help you understand the steps to successful book marketing in the media age. She covers:

The Difference between a Website and a Blog
The Important Items Your Blog Should Contain
The Nine Essential Social Media Platforms
Newsletters
Amazon’s Author Central and many more

With simple-to-follow steps, Barb will help you create, understand and use an Author Platform to support your career.

About the Author:

Social Media and Wordpress Consultant Barb Drozdowich has taught in colleges,universities and in the banking industry.

More recently, she brings her 15+ years of teaching experience and a deep love of books to help authors develop the socialmedia platform needed to succeed in today’s fast evolving publishing world.

She owns Bakerview Consulting and manages the popular blog, Sugarbeat’s Books,

where she talks about Romance – mostly Regency. She is the author of 6 books and over 20 YouTube videos all focused on helping authors and bloggers. Barb lives in the mountains of British Columbia with her family.

Book Review:

I am an author of poetry and short stories. Many of the things I learned throughout the process, I learned from trial and error. I still struggle with issues such as promotion and marketing (because I am cheap) and I probably need new book covers to increase sales (but I am cheap). My sister, on the other hand, has wrote a few books as well, and has developed a mastery in sales and promotions. She sells her books anywhere and everywhere.

In the book, the author, Barb D. discusses the basic tenets for writing a book, besides writing the book. Amazon Author Central is a good topic because that's where you create your author profile and add books to your page. Everytime, I write a book, I have to add it to the author profile, so if someone searches for me, all my books are on one page.

You can purchase The Author's Platform: The Beginner's Guide (Building Blocks) (Volume 2)on Amazon in Kindle, paperback, and Kindle Unlimited format.