Writersmama and My Platform Building Ways

Writersmama and MY Platform Building Ways

I wrote this piece a few years ago and after listening to bestselling author Joe Ide’s keynote at Southern California Writers Conference. Ide’s was an inspiring keynote filled with lots of craft writers must embrace if we want to be read.

About bestselling? Ah, there’s the dream we all have whether we just began this pursuit of have been at it for decades…BESTSELLING.

With my novel SweetSpot: Now and Then debuting in FALL 2024, I’m looking for ways to expand my platform, an author’s job if we expect to help readers find us. Like some writers who’ve been in this biz for a while, since 2012, when I launched MarlaMiller.com, I’ve been filling my website with my craft and business related articles, some as relavent in 2024 as they were in 2012. Others, an opportunity for this author/editor to get the word out about my work.

As I comb through the many pages of writing I’ve penned here since 2012, it dawned on me that my website likely has articles other websites might like. I queried the publisher of one, Wild Ink Publishing, pitching this piece about authors’ and our dreams. She accepted it quickly and of course, I then pitched two more articles about this industry I sometimes love to loathe. She said yes to those, too. Click here to read.

I’ve been a lifestyle magazine freelance writer for decades. Yet until recently, I did not connect the work I’ve already published as an opportunity to promote SweetSpot: Now and Then. I built my freelance career pitching to community magazines, getting gigs and using those articles to pitch to magazines with larger audiences…. one publication at a time. That’s what we did back when magazines helped writers build careers.

Sometimes the more things change, the more they stay the same…and this writer finds comfort in that.