Comments on: 5 Questions: Christina Katz

By: Anna Serra i Vidal

Anna Serra i Vidal — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 22:20:00 +0000

Thank you for heading me here! It’s a great pleasure to re-discover you and to read you again. Great article, and really makes me think!

By: Alegra Clarke

Alegra Clarke — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 19:41:49 +0000

Great post, it gave me a few things to think about in terms of how I approach my networking/blogging

By: Roger C. Parker

Roger C. Parker — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:25:39 +0000

Great post, Marie, thanks for sharing.

I love the sentence: “A platform-strong writer is a writer with influence.”

This is a hard lesson to communicate to first-time authors. Yet, more and more, successful nonfiction authors I interview started establishing their brand with a blog, then were approached by publishers.

Examples include Gar Reynolds, who is having great success with his Presentation Zen.

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By: Cindy Hudson

Cindy Hudson — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:07:59 +0000

Great post. I like thinking of a platform as a promise to all audiences: readers as well as agents and publishers. And it’s good to get a reminder about blogging and social networking too. Thanks Christina!

By: Jacque

Jacque — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:21:59 +0000

Awesome post! Thanks for the reminders and the great new ideas. I have certainly found that building a platform is the second most important job I have as a writer, second only to writing, of course. In one of Po Bronson’s books, can’t remember which, he said that he needed to be a good steward of his work and to do that he learned as much about the publishing industry as possible. It’s our job, after all.