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We LOVE to read comments so please leave a comment and subscribe to Our channel:  https://www.youtube.com/writerslifeorg Grab your free writer's toolkit by going to  http://www.writerslife.org/finish-your-book ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hello there is peter here again from writers life and coming up this time how to boost your author profile like never before self-promotion doesn't come naturally to many writers we are generally shy and flighty creatures who spend much of our time trying to prepare ourselves for rejection failure and all-encompassing do why would we want to bring more attention to ourselves when doing so not only suggests we actually think that our own work is good god forbid but also our therefore opening up the possibility of even more people being able to wade in and tell us how we are wasting our time and should definitely give up altogether all with a heartbreaking dream crushing grin on their faces the problem is however that without the willingness to self promote in this day and age your chances of furthering your writing career are basically zero luckily there is masses of information online and in books about the different ways we can promote ourselves as writers it's an art really and one we must learn if we ought to keep up building audience and actually sell our work think of your author platform as your new book take your time to think about each and everything you do you can't expect to create a fantastic author platform overnight it takes time to build this opener to thanks it but if you put the effort in you'll see a dramatic difference in the number of engagements you receive and ultimately the number of readers who will become loyal fans of your work firstly be very clear about who you are train to targets learn what your readers want what they are interested in and how they like to receive information think about how you want your work to be viewed and make sure you influence your readers and direct them to this way of thinking your message should be consistent you should have a voice and a style that people can recognize as yours make sure you keep tabs on where you're being mentioned Google Alerts is a simplest way to do this you can easily set up several alerts such as your name and book titles and keep track of when and where you pop up online this way you can see your author platform growing before your very eyes make sure you think people respond to them when they mention you too and don't make it all about me this is the golden rule when it comes to social media use your platform to mostly share useful funny entertaining information and only promote yourself and your work in between this if you're writing a bunch of useful articles that will interest your audience then that's fine you're sharing this information for free so people will be glad of it if every second tweet is a link to buy your book however people will lose interest and see you a socially selfish which is never a good thing there's nothing wrong with being a bit of a copycat take a look at your competition writers in the same field as you or authors you have how do they handle their author platform you can learn so much this way from what kind of content you should be posting to how frequently to the tone and style that you should adopt be engaging responsive and most importantly yourself people don't like fake whining all those who try too hard authors are not brands they are people and so should act like them fans of your work will be interested in you and your life and what you like to do in your spare time so make sure you keep it personal don't assume that no one cares or wants to listen to what you have to say spark conversations be friendly and give something back people are sure to respect you for that a little by little this will help your author profile grow and don't forget if you're struggling to write or finish your book Alfre writer's toolkit can help with it you'll learn how to overcome procrastination get organized stay focused find time to write and finally get your book published to get access now while it's still available simply go to   http://www.writerslife.org/toolkit that's it for now be sure to give us a thumbs up if you liked this video and subscribe to our channel for more my name's Peter and I'll see you next time bye for now