Establishing Your Author Platform With Sacha Black and Orna Ross: Self-Publishing Fiction & Nonfiction Podcast

Published: July 3, 2020, noon

In this month\u2019s Fiction & Nonfiction Self-Publishing Salon, Sacha Black and Orna Ross explore the importance of an author platform. They explain how to establish an effective platform in today\u2019s digital publishing environment.

Topics covered include: \xa0

  • What is an author platform?
  • How platform gives you reach\xa0
  • How to grow your platform organically, as part of your work

The topics explored in this session are all about expanding your influence and impact as an author.

Our fiction and nonfiction salon is brought to you by sponsor Izzard Ink.

Find more author advice, tips and tools at our\xa0Self-publishing Author Advice Center:\xa0https://selfpublishingadvice.org, with a huge archive of nearly 2,000 blog posts, and a handy search box to find key info on the topic you need.

And, if you haven\u2019t already, we invite you to\xa0join our organization\xa0and become a self-publishing ally. You can do that at\xa0http://allianceindependentauthors.org.

About the Hosts

Sacha Black\xa0is a bestselling and competition-winning author. She\xa0writes the popular YA Fantasy\xa0Eden East\xa0novels and a series of non-fiction books that are designed to help writers develop their craft. Sacha has been a long-time resident writing coach for website\xa0Writers Helping Writers. She is also a developmental editor, wife and mum.

Orna Ross launched the Alliance of Independent Authors at the London Book Fair in 2012. Her work for ALLi has seen her named as one of The Bookseller\u2019s \u201c100 top people in publishing\u201d. She also publishes poetry, fiction and nonfiction, and is greatly excited by the democratising, empowering potential of author-publishing. For more information about Orna, visit her website: http://www.ornaross.com