Author Reality + Charles Sterling on Marketing and Author Platform

#Authors #Books #SelfPublishing #SerializedDrama #StoryTelling

Marketing, building a platform as a writer… There’s more to being a novelist than simply writing. Many successful authors started out serializing chapters in newspapers and blogs. What are your thoughts on selling books?

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Time Stamps (list of segments):

• HBT introduction
• Some of my findings on authors who start by serializing their books and a little about today’s guest 1:05
• Charles Sterling on Marketing and Author Platform 4:45
• My question for you 12:20
• HBT outro

Photos available at the blog version of this show:

• Charles’ self-portraits

Links referred to in this episode:

• Happiness Between original blog post for this episode.
• Author Charles Sterling, this episode’s guest.
• About the novels I'm writing.
• Wikipedia on madeleines that writer Marcel Proust used as analyze memory.
• Wikipedia on Charles Dickens who serialized.
• Wikipedia on Helen Fielding' and her orignially serialized, “Bridget Jones’s Diary”.
• Wikipedia on Armistead Maupin and his newspaper serialized “Tales of the City”.
• E. L. James, began her “Fifty Shades of Grey” as a blog.
• Julie Powell blogged “Julie and Julia” into a book, then movie.