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An author platform...measures an author's audience/readership, their ability to reach their audience and get reads/sales, and their influence and presence across multiple platforms and areas.
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the many ways published authors can make money, with traditional publishing, self publishing, hybrid publishing and ways that work no matter how a book is published...
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as writer I realized that in order to get work done and be a better writer I need to write everyday. And to write everyday I needed discipline...
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But then I realized I am unable to point out my weakness, especially the biggest ones, because I am not separate from my writing: unable to analyze my writing unbiasedly, I