Create If Writing - Authentic Platform Building For Writers & Bloggers

I've been talking about why your audience isn't growing and want to tackle how to get more readers and sell more books. I have a great interview with Chris Syme of the award-winning CK Syme media group and author of Sell More Books with Less Social Media. Many authors struggle with promotion the same way that bloggers do. Content creation is awesome! But promotion...not so much. I think sometimes we need to reframe the conversation.  Think back to when you were young and fell in love with your first books. Did you ever wish you could write to your favorite author? I did! But...back then there was no internet. No website for authors. Just the publishers' address on that boring page no one reads in the front of the book.  Now? If you want to reach your favorite author, you might be able to get a response in under an hour on Twitter.  Yes, social media means we have to do some promotional work. But what if instead of thinking of this as WORK, we thought of it as connecting with our readers. Directly. THAT'S SO C