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CREATE YOUR AUTHOR PLATFORM What IS a platform? It’s your visibility. The wider your reach, the more books you can sell. What you do with your platform is try to reach (in an authentic way) your target audience. It’s all about connecting—with people on a real level and because of your reach, you are able to sell books. It’s not about being in people’s faces and hollering about buying your book. So, who needs a platform and where do you begin? Let's talk about it in this episode. Get a FREE peek into Writers' Block here: http://instituteforwriters.com/freewritersblock

Classroom 2.0 LIVE webinar "Picture Book Month and celebration of Dianne de Las Casas" with Tara Lazar, Katie Davis, John Couret and Paula Naugle. October 14, 2017 Today's webinar is a very special show for us! We have the opportunity to learn all about Picture Book Month from Tara Lazar and Katie Davis, co-founders and renowned children's authors. Picture Book Month was envisioned and founded by Dianne de Las Casas who was our special guest presenter in May, 2017 on Classroom 2.0 LIVE. Sadly, Dianne lost her life in a tragic fire recently and we wanted to honor her legacy by celebrating her life through this featured presentation about Picture Book Month. We will learn about the importance of picture books for students and Picture Book Month. They have created an outstanding Teacher's Guide for participants in Picture Book Month. Our presenters will also share some of their special memories of Dianne de Las Casas including a special visit from John Couret who began writing children’s books because of Dianne’s inspiration. Author Tara Lazar has six picture books in print with many more to come. Her latest title is “7 Ate 9: The Untold Story” from Disney*Hyperion. Next fall look for her illustrated dictionary “500 Words to Bumfuzzle Your Teachers & Bamboozle Your Frenemies”. Tara is the founder of STORYSTORM, a writer’s brainstorming challenge formerly known as Picture Book Idea Month. She is a picture book mentor for We Need Diverse Books and the co-chair of the Rutgers University Council on Children’s Literature annual conference. Katie’s secret superpower is her ability to teach non-techy and tech-fearful writers how to become better business people by building their platforms through social media, video, and creating/building mailing lists. Also known in her niche as one of the first writer entrepreneurs, Katie has created many events and courses for writers, including How to Create Your Author Platform (and Market Your Books without Being Pushy), Video Idiot Boot Camp, and Picture Book Summit (the largest and first online conference of its kind). Her podcast, Brain Burps About Books, is consistently ranked in the top 10 book-related categories. She’s appeared regularly on WTNH and The Huffington Post. She is the director of the Institute of Children’s Literature, which provides accredited writing courses for both adult and children’s books. Katie has been honored to speak everywhere from a maximum security prison, to elementary schools, to university level, including UCONN and Yale, and has keynoted conferences and fundraising galas. You can subscribe to Katie’s YouTube channel at KatieDavis.TV or the #1 podcast in iTunes in Children’s Publishing by going to KatieDavis.com/podcast. Katie Davis’s books, published by Harcourt, S&S, HarperCollins, and Diversion Books, have sold over 755,000 copies, which is why she’s published How to Promote Your Children’s Book, a marketing guide for writers that debuted at #1 on Amazon. http://picturebookmonth.com/ https://taralazar.com/storystorm/ http://katiedavis.com/ https://www.gofundme.com/4b4y0xs (Go Fund Me in Celebration of Dianne de Las Casas)

Brain Burps About Books Podcast #234 Listener Mailbag Announcements Listener Exclusive! Get Your First 1000 Followers is my new LIVE class coming this Fall. Reserve your spot before July 31st and get $50 off with code PODCAST50. Just for my peeps! Want to hear your question on a future episode of Brain Burps About Books? Ask your question at www.speakpipe.com/KatieDavis. Do you enjoy our Brain Burps About Books guests? Do you have questions for them? Come join the Brain Burps About Books Facebook Group and interact with them! Click HERE to join. Picture Book Summit is coming October 3rd! Early Bird registration is going on now. Reserve your spot at this online event to hear our fabulous keynote speakers, Peter Brown, Andrea Pinkney, and Mac Barnett. Plus, we'll have sessions with agents and editors. You can find all the details at www.picturebooksummit.com. This week I'm answering questions from the ol' mailbag Tune in to hear the answer to these burning writer questions: How do you balance a "just do it" attitude with thoughtful planning in your platform & products? What should I do to focus my marketing on social media to attract readers in my genre? What is one tip you would give to someone just starting out? Resources mentioned in this episode How to Create Your Author Platform - www.howtrocreateyourauthorplatform.com Get Your First 1000 Followers - www.getyourfirst1000followers.comUse code PODCAST50 for $50 off thru July 31, 2015.

Brain Burps About Books Podcast #232 Making a Living as a Writer An Interview with Laura Purdie Salas Announcements Picture Book Summit is coming October 3rd! The Early Bird registration is now open! Text 33444 and enter the code PBSKATIE to get on the early bird list or go HERE to sign up. You don't want to miss this! Meet our podcast guests in our the Brain Burps About Book Podcast Group: www.katiedavis.com/podcastgroup. Come get your questions answered! This Week's Guest is Laura Purdie Salas! This week’s guest is Laura Purdie Salas. Laura Purdie Salas is the author of more than 100 books for kids and teens, including BOOKSPEAK! POEMS ABOUT BOOKS (Minnesota Book Award, NCTE Notable, Bank Street Best Books, Eureka! Gold Medal, and more), STAMPEDE! POEMS TO CELEBRATE THE WILD SIDE OF SCHOOL (Finalist, Minnesota Book Award), and A LEAF CAN BE... (Bank Street Best Books, IRA Teachers' Choice, NCTE Notable Children's Book, Riverby Award for Nature Books for Young Readers, and more). She loves to introduce kids to poetry and help them find poems they can relate to, no matter what their age, mood, and personality. She has also written numerous nonfiction books. See more about Laura and her work at www.laurasalas.com. Laura and I talk about What is your state of mind? What does it need to be? How to think of yourself as a business – tips and actionable steps! Who to send your packet to? What’s in the packet? Is there a standard pay rate or does it depend on the project? Laura's book WRITING FOR THE EDUCATIONAL MARKET. How to Create Your Author Platform. Resources for writers at Evelyn Christensen and Writing for the Education Market. Pros and cons of being a working writer. How to be hired more often as a speaker.

Brain Burps About Books Podcast #230 How to Beat Your Competitors in a Google Search An Interview with Lindsey Anderson Announcements Find out the First Five Ways to Build Your Author Platform and be the first to get notified when the How to Create Your Author Platform course opens again. CLICK HERE to get started. Meet our podcast guests in our the Brain Burps About Book Podcast Group: www.katiedavis.com/podcastgroup. Come get your questions answered! Appearances Join me! I'm speaking at Podcast Boston on June 13th. This Week's Guest is Lindsey Anderson! This week’s guest is Lindsey Anderson. Lindsey is a web strategy expert working with small business owners to help them grow their businesses. She is the founder and CEO of two companies; Web Impakt, a successful web development company, and Lindsey’s Web, an online resource for small business owners to learn about ranking on search engines, newsletters, analytics, social media, pay-per-click ads, websites, blogging, and the list goes on. She knows how to utilize web technologies to help small business owners achieve their dreams. Lindsey and I talk about Why www.webimpakt.com is spelled with a "k". What free resources you can find at www.lindseysweb.com. The benefits of working from home. Search Engine Optimization (SEO). How content is king! Why you should write three blog posts per week. How important it is for your site to be mobile friendly. Responsive web design. How to beat your competitors in a Google search. How to get a free website review from Lindsey. Where to sign up for her Facebook Marketing Webinar.

Brain Burps About Books Podcast #229 Writers, Do You Have a Financial Mentor? An Interview with Todd Tresidder Announcements Find out the First Five Ways to Build Your Author Platform and be the first to get notified when the How to Create Your Author Platform course opens again. CLICK HERE to get started. Join the fun in the Brain Burps About Book Podcast Group: www.katiedavis.com/podcastgroup. I'll be offering extras, and sharing resources to help you grow and learn best practices. Why should you as a writer learn about video? Not only to market your books, but because reciprocity rocks: to help with charities near and dear to your heart. I was able to help my local Neighbor to Neighbor charity with this video, below. Appearances Join me! I'm speaking at Podcast Boston on June 13th. This Week's Guest is Todd Tresidder! This week’s guest is Todd Tresidder. Todd Tresidder is a financial coach at FinancialMentor.com. His unconventional take on worn financial topics has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily, Smart Money magazine, Yahoo Finance, and more. He’s authored 5 financial education books including How Much Money Do I Need To Retire?, Variable Annuity Pros and Cons, and the 4% Rule and Safe Withdrawal Rates In Retirement. Todd and I talk about Why every writer needs a platform - whether you are self-published or traditionally published. How books build relationships and relationships build businesses. Why you have to market your books. How writing the book is only a third of your job as an author. Building equity. How to compound your equity as a writer. Your books being your art. Expected Value Bets. How investing isn’t gambling. Roderick Russell, the Renaissance Man behind RemarkablyHuman.com. EventualMillionaire.com. How Todd and Pat Flynn help each other out.

Brain Burps About Books Podcast #228 How to Speak at Teacher Conferences An Interview with Teresa Funke Announcements Find out the First Five Ways to Build Your Author Platform and be on the first to be notified when How to Create Your Author Platform opens again.  CLICK HERE to get started. Join the fun in the Brain Burps About Book Podcast Group: www.katiedavis.com/podcastgroup. I'll be offering extras, and sharing resources to help you grow and learn best practices. Contributors Emily Wylie reviews Stacey Lee’s debut book Under a Painted Sky. Appearances Join me! I'm speaking at Podcast Boston on June 13th. I'm teaching Yale this summer on June 7th. (Yes, THAT Yale!) More information to come. This Week's Guest is Teresa Funke!   This week’s guest is Teresa Funke. Teresa embodies the modern artist/entrepreneur. She is the owner of Teresa Funke & Company and Victory House Press and the award-winning author of six novels for adults and children based on true stories from WWII. She is also a nationwide speaker offering keynotes and presentations and a popular writer’s coach and creativity coach. Visit Teresa's You Tube channel to watch her popular writing videos or to check out her playlist, "Great Ideas Giveaway," in which Teresa shares business ideas for artists and creatives that they can take and use in their own models. Teresa and I talk about Teresa's YouTube channel and she uses it go in depth teaching writing techniques. Coaching writers. Great Idea Giveaways. Dancing in Combat BootsDancing in Combat Boots. Kids skipping recess to hear Teresa talk. Her multicultural series for kids: Home Front Heroes The No-No Boys about Japanese Internment camps in WWII. V for Victory – Story of a Mexican American boy in WWII. Wave Me Goodbye - Jewish girl and an orphaned English boy become friends in WWII. Back matter included in Non-fiction makes it easier for teachers to use. Hired a retired teacher to develop lesson plans and curriculum guides Speaking at teacher conferences. Do you pay to attend the conference you want to speak at? How she was at the beginning of the self-publishing trend. Getting books in museum gift shops. Book covers and how to design them. Teresa's Burst of Brillance for a Creative Life.

Brain Burps About Books Podcast #227 Defining Magical Realism An Interview with Laura Ruby Announcements The launch of How to Create Your Author Platform (and Market Your Books without Being Pushy) went great, the students are awesome. The course is wait listed but you can CLICK HERE to be notified as soon as it opens sign up. Plus you'll get 5 things you can do today to start your platform before you even get in the class. Join the fun in the Brain Burps About Book Podcast Group: www.katiedavis.com/podcastgroup. I'll be offering extras, and sharing resources to help you  grow and learn best practices. Appearances I'm speaking at Podcast Boston on June 13th. I'm teaching Yale this summer. (Yes, THAT Yale!) Date to be determined - I'll let you know as soon as I know! This Week's Guest is Laura Ruby! This week’s guest is Laura Ruby. Laura is one of my BFF's and she also writes fiction for adults, teens and children. She is the author of the newly-released YA novel BONE GAP*, as well as the Edgar-nominated children's mystery LILY'S GHOSTS, the ALA Quick Pick for teens GOOD GIRLS (2006), a collection of interconnected short stories about blended families for adults, I'M NOT JULIA ROBERTS (2007), and the forthcoming middle-grade trilogy YORK. She is on the faculty of Hamline University's Masters in Writing for Children Program. She makes her home in the Chicago area. Laura and I talk about We talk about bees and their relationship to gender issues. Animals: magical and otherwise. The way we see the people we love. How Laura names her characters. How many words do you need for a novel? How does Laura edit? What is magical realism and what is Laura Ruby’s definition of it? Helen Oyeyemi, author of Boy, Snow, Bird: A Novel Imaginary Girls by Nova Ren Suma * I did receive a free advanced copy of BONE GAP and I am happy to call Laura Ruby my friend.

Brain Burps About Books Podcast #226 Create Your Author Platform Month Closes with Illustrator Sandy Williams Illustrators Need Platforms, Too! I am grateful for Tim McCanna and his awesome jingle. The original one, but also the new one he created and edited for me. Kellie Johnston, for the lovely thank you note she wrote to me on how I changed her career in three minutes! The peeps who have been showing up to my hangouts. Do you have any idea how awks it is to talk to your iMac, alone in your office? No one responding? But if you know there are viewers, especially ones who are entering questions, well, that’s something to be grateful for! The peeps who’ve been thanking me for my free training. My new students. Not only am I grateful, I’m impressed. You’ve taken a leap of faith in your own career. Nicely done. Announcements We have a brand spankin' new Facebook group just for YOU, my peeps! Let's take the podcast topics one step further and get down to the nitty gritty. Join here: www.katiedavis.com/podcastgroup Free training is only available until Sunday, May 3rd! New Flash Training included: www.katiedavis.com/freetraining The tables were turned. I was a guest on the Biz Chix Podcast! Check it out HERE. I'm teaching a picture book workshop at Yale this June! Join me during Session 2 HERE. This Week's Guest is Sandy Williams! This week’s guest is Sandy Williams. Sandy is an illustrator and was one of my Crank It Up Implementation students this winter. She specializes in natural science illustration and design. Sandy also teaches courses in learning to paint with gouache, the medium she uses most for her illustration and design work. Sandy and I talk about  How creating a platform has helped her sell her book. How creating a platform has helped her create an email list. How Sandy went from flailing to goal setting. As a non-techy, how she’s creating her platform using video. What would happen if past-Sandy met present-Sandy!

Fifty Shades of Greatness A Conversation About Creating the Life You’ve Been Yearning For with Paula Jean Burns Announcements Where should you start building your platform? Let me show you with my FREE video training. Hurry! It's only available until May 3rd! Text 33444 and enter the code KATIED to get signed up for my free training! HOWEVER, if you want to check out the full course, the one I just launched TODAY, go here:  How to Create Your Author Platform (and Market Your Books Without Being Pushy!) I express my gratitude to the reviewers of the free training videos. This Week's Guest is Paula Jean Burns! This week’s guest is Paula Jean Burns. Recognized for her leadership as a highly skilled Project Team Manager within the Information Technology field, Paula Jean delivers powerful strategies to her clients leading them to attain significance and purpose which she describes as  “Living Life All In." After 25 years of leading high profile teams and projects for a leading health care system, Paula Jean’s world was rocked when she experienced 2 major life events within the same year causing Paula Jean to pause and declare:  “So, this is it?  There must be more to life!” Paula Jean responded by taking her life off “auto-pilot” and regaining control as the driver of her life.  It was in taking this bold move that led Paula Jean to discover her life’s true work, reconnect to her passion and for the first time to live her life All IN! Paula Jean and I talk about Intuitive Mindful Leadership. Living All In. Fifty Shades of Greatness. What does “bespoke” mean. How to create the life you’ve been yearning for. What she thought of my beta test! How my platform tips helped her even though she's not exclusively a writer. Making these platform principles applicable to everyone. Learning lessons backwards! The benefits of narrowing down your audience. How to be specific and authentic at the same time.

Click for Shownotes Katie Davis‘ picture books and young adult novels from traditional publishers Harcourt, S&S, HarperCollins, and Diversion Books have sold over 250,000 copies, which is why she then independently published How to Promote Your Children’s Book, a marketing guide for writers which debuted at #1 on Amazon. Katie’s one of the first writer entrepreneurs, with courses for writers including How to Create Your Author Platform (and Market Your Books without Being Pushy), Video Idiot Boot Camp, and others. She holds live (virtual) group coaching sessions called Crank It Up with Katie!, teaching non-techy writers and small biz people how to market themselves in non-pushy ways. Her podcast, Brain Burps About Books, is tops in many categories in iTunes (such as #1, Children’s Publishing, #2 in Book Marketing, #7 in Publishing- a huge category). She’s appeared regularly on Good Morning, CT, and blogs for The Huffington Post. She’s taught and shared her experiences everywhere from classes at a maximum security prison to keynotes at fundraising galas. If you’d like to get Katie’s free marketing lessons head to KatieDavis.com/VIP! Inside This Episode Motivational Quote “Reciprocity rocks!” Katie Davis “Think with abundance.” “There is no downside to generosity.” Must Read Book Productivity Tools Canva.com for image creation Text Expander which has saved Katie 2,220,363 characters and 92.52 hours since she started using it wistia.com Other Resources 21 Must Have Tools BizChix Episodes mentioned in this episode Connect with Katie katiedavis.com Twitter Facebook YouTube LinkedIn Pinterest Google+ Thank you so much for listening.  If you enjoyed the episode, please consider subscribing in iTunes  and Stitcher and leaving a rating and or review.  This helps us continue to be featured in New & Noteworthy so that more people can find us. Click here to join the Biz Chix community Thank you to our Sponsors:     

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