Book Proposal Writing: How to Get Published
Strengthening Your Platform
A course by Courtney Maum , Author and Book Coach
About the video: Strengthening Your Platform
Overview
“In this lesson, we’ll talk about how we can strengthen the areas of our platform that need a little help. ”
In this video lesson Courtney Maum addresses the topic: Strengthening Your Platform, which is part of the Domestika online course: Book Proposal Writing: How to Get Published. Prepare to share your ideas with the world by learning to create dynamic book proposals from start to finish.
Partial transcription of the video
“Strengthening Your Platform In the last lesson, we learned how you can find the best editor or agent for your book proposal. In this lesson, we'll be looking at Boosting platform. How to address areas of our platform that are a little weak. We'll revisit the worksheet that we used in an earlier lesson, where we broke down platform into four different components, Virtual Reach, Physical Reach, Personal Network and Publications. Basically here we have everything, that's IRL, in the real world. Here, this is more social media, digital platforms and all that. We're going to address these three ...”
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Course summary for: Book Proposal Writing: How to Get Published
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Creative Consulting, Creative Writing, Creativity, Design Management, Marketing, Narrative, Storytelling, Writing
Courtney Maum
A course by Courtney Maum
American author and book coach Courtney Maum has used stories to make sense of the world since she was a child. She studied comparative literature and French translation at university before going on to work in advertising agencies as a copywriter and corporate namer. She has used her love of storytelling to create compelling backstories for everything from nail polish to electric cars.
Courtney is fascinated with the creative process and has written and published several books with some of the biggest publishing houses and editors in America, including Penguin Random House and The New York Times. She also founded a collaborative retreat for creative professionals and has a regular newsletter, Get Published, Stay Published, in which she shares her tips for staying motivated during the writing process.
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