Category: Platform Profiles
The sweet agony of travel journalism
“As someone who edits a travel site, my business trips are business trips, and my vacations are — business trips,”says Peter J. Frank, editor-in-chief of Concierge.com (Condé Nast Traveler Online). In an article by Frank (as told to Chris Elliot) for the New York Times, on what I’d like to call the hidden truths of […]
» Read more...Building Your Platform With a Niche
I’m sure a bunch of people have told you that you need a platform in order to sell a book. What’s platform? I like to think of it as a foundation of experience and readership. For example, someone who has a newspaper column and/or a radio show has a stronger platform than someone with a […]
» Read more...Platform Profiles: Ayun Halliday
Our friend and loyal WR fan, the fantastical Ayun Halliday, is out with another new book. You know her from No Touch Monkey, Job Hopper, and as a contributor to Travelers’ Tales anthologies. But, she was writing books and her zine, The East Village Inky, well before that. I thought this the perfect time to […]
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