March 10th, 2011 | Author: admin
Reviews on Amazon:
I bought it before a writers conference I attended and while the writers conference was great to energize my desire to get a platform going, two weeks later, it was Teresa LeYung Ryan’s and Christine Katz’s books that kept me going and powering through. While Katz’s book is a good “here is what to do”, Ryan’s book is “do this”. Both are great. I am happy I bought it, and would recommend it (and Katz’s book if you can buy two). It is a task focused book that is great for a first time author with little or no marketing/media experience.
If you want to build your platform or even start marketing your business, this is a book to consider. If you need someone to guide you, this is your book!
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Thanks to Teresa’s book I learned to contact a star. The famous Carol Channing wrote a review for my latest book YOU and THE ARTS–Why Art Matters. Teresa’s book is a wonderful help in learing how to get good publicity.
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This book taught me a lot. It’s packed with information, and the presentations and exercises build upon what came before. It’s direct and clear and has plenty of instructive examples that plainly show the way, and how to get there. It’s like having your very own writing career coach with you at every step. This extremely helpful workbook has given me great preparation for building a platform. I enthusiastically recommend it.
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This book is written as a set of specific tasks. And I think that is what is so great about it. The author doesn’t spend 200 pages waffling and trying to convince you of something you’re already dying to do, but just don’t know how to execute. All you have to do is follow the directions. No analyzing too many options, no trying to out-think the huge behemoth that is publishing industry. It’s like having a friend take you by the hand, set you down on the right path, and then walk right along side you. The added benefit is that on the way, you’ll find out some pretty interesting things about yourself and what your platform (so essential these days for getting published) is really all about.
For me, having clear cut steps and directions is invaluable when it comes figuring out what I really want to communicate to potential readers and how to get my platform established.
I know. I’m a writer, newly finished my first work (okay, here I’m going to plug it) “Over the Edge,” a fictionalized memoir, told in nine episodes, which tells what it’s really like to live, run, and be a part of the street life.
Kudos and Thanks, Teresa
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Much has been written in the past year or two about the importance to writers of having a “platform.” Writers without a platform, we are told, find it difficult if not impossible to be taken seriously by agents and publishers. This ambitious book takes a new approach to building a platform. Instead of the usual pep talks, it consists of a series of exercises–22 minutes for 22 days– to build the reader’s self-knowledge and skill. The exercises are often thought-provoking, and always fun. For all writers who find themselves “stuck” when it comes to building a platform, this is a most worthwhile tool.
Margaret Davis, author of Straight Down the Middle
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Judith Marshall “women’s fiction author”
Although I had already published my novel, “Husbands May Come and Go but Friends are Forever,” and set up my website when I purchased this playbook, I found lots of information and tips I hadn’t known. I especially liked the exercises which helped me identify where to spend my time and energy. A great road map to building your writer platform.
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Ms. Ryan gives us a huge building block toward getting our gems into print. I tried her original draft of this book, doing the exercises, and being amazed how much i could put into a platform. Now she has expanded this workbook richly. She is a whiz in the ways a writer can get noticed.
in all the confusing technology around these days, this book takes a novice carefully through the process to this end.
It is quite a bargain at $22.
Lynn Scott, Memorist, A Joyous Encounter: My Mother, My Alzheimer Clients, and Me
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Is There a Book to Help Writers Build Platform and Fanbase?
Build Your Writer’s Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days: Attract Agents, Editors, Publishers, Readers, and Media Attention NOW available through Amazon
Sincerely,
22-Day Coach Teresa LeYung Ryan
http://writingcoachteresa.com
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Teresa,
I listened to you at the S.F. Writers Conference and bought your book… now I am recommending it to others – even small business owners who have no desire to write. The conference gave some great ideas and you give the plan! Thanks!
See my referral for you in the cut and paste email below…
From StartUp Women…
Next, Christina Schlachter shared what she learned at a recent conference: Build Your (profitable) Business: Top 5 things I learned from the San Francisco Writer’s Conference all small business owners can use!. Much of what she learned/shared can be applied to any profession, and included some low-cost or free channels to get your name out there. Christina has posted the content of her handout on our discussion board. Some additional tidbits that I jotted down:
* Christina recommended the book “Build Your Writer’s Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days: Attract Agents, Editors, Publishers, Readers, and Media Attention NOW”
* Reserve the URL of your name now – even if you don’t know when you’ll use it. Recommended hosting vendors included Name.com (Boulder company!) and eNom.com
* Smashwords.com – an ebook publishing and distribution platform for ebook authors, publishers and readers, usually free.
Hi Teresa,
I have just started reading this book and I love it. I’ve wanted to start a blog and a website for ages but I am not very technically astute and was having trouble figuring out how to start and what I wanted to say. Your book has been really helpful so far.
My goal is to write award winning children’s literature that kids want to read again and again. I am working on a few picture books and a YA no fiction proposal. I hope your book helps me pull together my ideas and form a website and blog that encompasses my passion s for reading and writing.
Thanks!
Victoria Pressley
Victoria,
I am so happy to hear that you have started using Build Your Writer’s Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days. I look forward to seeing your mission statement (you’ll have yours by Day 9 or Day 10). May your platform help your fans/consumers of children’s books find you again and again and again!
If you are in the San Francisco Bay Area, please consider attending this event: Tuesday, April 5, 2011
The 15th Annual Effie Lee Morris Lecture: TRICKSTERS!
Guest lecturer: Gerald McDermott – the Art of the Folktale
San Francisco Public Library, Lower Level, 100 Larkin Street (at Grove), SF, CA http://www.sfpl.org
5:00pm Reception & Book Signing; 6:00pm Lecture presented FREE by
Children & Youth Services and the Fisher Children’s Center of the
San Francisco Public Library and Women’s National Book Assoc-SF
Chapter. Board members of WNBA (a co-sponsor of this lecture)
encourage all members (especially authors of children’s literature)
to attend this event… a tradition in San Francisco. Effie Lee Morris
founded the San Francisco Chapter of Women’s National Book
Association. This annual lecture is just one of the many legacies
Effie Lee Morris left for readers and writers.
I’ll be there!
Cheers to Author Victoria Pressley from Coach Teresa