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  • Jul 14, 2009

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    What is an Author’s Platform?

    AKA They Assume You Already Know This

    At the 2009 DFW Writers’ Workshop Conference, an agent mentioned it was important to him that the author have a platform.  This was the first time I had heard that word (platform) used when speaking of publishing.  I heard it again this weekend at Bob Mayer’s Warrior Writer workshop.

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