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Dec 21, 2021

Before Jumping into Planning Your 2022 Goals You Might Want to Read This — Pages & Platforms

It can be hard to make time for reflection, especially at the end of the year, when we’re hustling to buy presents, make travel plans, et cetera. But you’ve clicked on this article and made a bit of time to read it, so I invite you to spend just ten…

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Before Jumping into Planning Your 2022 Goals You Might Want to Read This — Pages & Platforms
Before Jumping into Planning Your 2022 Goals You Might Want to Read This — Pages & Platforms
Writing

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Sep 23, 2021

Your Fall/Winter Writer Survival Kit — Pages & Platforms

This post could very easily have been written as a McSweeney’s satirical piece about how we writers are going to survive another northern-hemisphere winter during a pandemic. (Picture an accompanying illustration with an ill-kempt writer swaddled in a blanket popping a handful of CBD gummies into her mouth.) But the…

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Your Fall/Winter Writer Survival Kit — Pages & Platforms
Your Fall/Winter Writer Survival Kit — Pages & Platforms

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Aug 11, 2021

How (and Why) to Set Up Your Author Newsletter — Pages & Platforms

The trick to growing your author platform and selling more books is building an email list of fans. Truly, it’s your number one book marketing goal. Cue the groans from writers who don’t want to start an email list. Writers tell me: “They’re a lot of work.” “They’re boring.” “No…

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How (and Why) to Set Up Your Author Newsletter — Pages & Platforms
How (and Why) to Set Up Your Author Newsletter — Pages & Platforms
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May 5, 2021

How to Talk about Your Book During an Interview

Back when I was a teenager, I used to work at a sandwich shop with a really nice kid named Rob. Rob was a television fanatic. It wouldn’t surprise me to learn he’d gone on to be a tv writer. Every shift, he would tell me about what he’d been…

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How to Talk about Your Book During an Interview — Pages & Platforms
How to Talk about Your Book During an Interview — Pages & Platforms
Writing

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Jan 10, 2020

A Mindset Roadmap for Your Next Creative Project

Too many of us writers fly by the seat of our pants at the start of a major project. We get really inspired, dive in without a clear plan for how we’re going see it through, then quit when we hit our first creative pothole. Our muse really deserves better…

Authors

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A Mindset Roadmap for Your Next Creative Project
A Mindset Roadmap for Your Next Creative Project
Authors

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Oct 30, 2019

The Case for Scary

I’m not big on horror movies and haunted houses. In fact, last year I almost didn’t take my twelve-year-old to the Halloween store to get the make-up she needed for her Ziggy Stardust costume because I thought the décor might be too scary. But I’m writing today to make the…

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The Case for Scary
The Case for Scary
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Oct 10, 2019

The Next 7 Weeks Could Alter Your Future as an Author

Sometimes we wait too long to do something that we know needs doing. Just a little example for you: I’ve known I wanted to be a writer since second grade. I was thirty-two when I finally got serious about it. Twenty-five years of hiding from my destiny — of thinking it was out of reach. Once I hit my teenage years, I basically…

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The Next 7 Weeks Could Alter Your Future as an Author
The Next 7 Weeks Could Alter Your Future as an Author
Writing

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Oct 7, 2019

To Sell More Books, Change the Story You Tell Yourself About Marketing — Book Launch

I talk to a ton of authors. At events, online, and on client calls. I always ask how they feel about book marketing and I take notes. Reading back those notes is like reading the journal of an angsty teenager. Believe me when I say, I am NOT criticizing anyone…

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To Sell More Books, Change the Story You Tell Yourself About Marketing — Book Launch
To Sell More Books, Change the Story You Tell Yourself About Marketing — Book Launch

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Jul 9, 2019

Two Podcasts Writers Shouldn’t Miss

Here’s some summer listening that that will enrich your writing life…and happens to features a few of the women from Pages & Platforms. 1. Sue’s on the Book Launch Show I’m sharing this one first, since there’s a time sensitive element. Tim Grahl is on vacation, so I was lucky enough to sit down with Valerie Francis…

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·Jun 18, 2019

The Ridiculously Simple 3-Step Method That Sells Books

If you do a google search on book marketing, you’ll get a staggering array of tactics that makes selling books look extremely complicated and time consuming. Some of it is bullshit. Some of it is woefully incomplete. Most of it misses the big picture. I won’t tell you that selling…

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The Ridiculously Simple 3-Step Method That Sells Books
The Ridiculously Simple 3-Step Method That Sells Books
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Sue Campbell

Sue Campbell

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Word merchant: Book marketer, mindset coach, author. Blogs at pagesandplatforms.com.

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