Every writer knows that in order to succeed they have to become known. It really is a fact, if people have never heard of you it is going to be rather difficult to sell your book to them. Gone are the days when you could just write your novel and leave everything else in the hands of your publisher or agent. Today, writers need to become marketing experts too. They need to create visibility and the best way to do this is through their author platform.
Now before I jump into explaining the author platform, I feel it only fair to mention that it will require some hard work and effort on your part to make it work.
Amanda J Evans is an award-winning Irish author and writing coach. Amanda writes adult romance that often crosses into paranormal and fantasy. Growing up with heroes like Luke Skywalker and Indiana Jones, her stories centre on good versus evil with a splice of love and magic thrown in too. Her books have all won awards and her novella, Hear Me Cry, won the Book of the Year Award at the Dublin Writers Conference 2018. Amanda is also the author of Surviving Suicide: A Memoir from Those Death Left Behind, published in 2012.