Is there really only one way to build a business as an author? Must we spend time building a platform before we can write and publish a book? Do we have to be on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and every other social media site? These are the rules, right? At least that’s what the experts tell us.
But what if there are no rules?
Author, Speaker, and Entrepreneur Jane Friedman just released a book with the title PUBLISHING 101. One of my favorite lines of the book comes in the introduction where she says, “I teach the rules, even though there aren’t any.”
Jane also co-founded Scratch Magazine, The Digital Magazine for Writers, with Manjula Martin. As you’ll hear in the interview, this is something I read from start to finish with each new issue, normally in one evening. If you’re a regular listener of The Author Biz podcast, I think you’d enjoy Scratch.
In this episode Jane and I discuss things like author platforms, the value of consistent blogging in her career and her surprising views on blogging for authors, finding the right publication path for an authors books and some of the many challenges and opportunities facing authors today.
