Comments on: Now This is What You Call a Platform http://www.slushpile.net/index.php/2006/10/31/now-this-is-what-you-call-a-platform/ Writing about writing Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:54:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: NON-FICTION WRITERS & their Websites » Book Design http://www.slushpile.net/index.php/2006/10/31/now-this-is-what-you-call-a-platform/comment-page-1/#comment-616275 NON-FICTION WRITERS & their Websites » Book Design Fri, 23 Sep 2011 18:34:21 +0000 http://www.slushpile.net/index.php/2006/10/31/now-this-is-what-you-call-a-platform/#comment-616275 [...] all the emphasis on platform as a necessity for getting non-fiction published, one might assume that the ratio of non-fiction [...] [...] all the emphasis on platform as a necessity for getting non-fiction published, one might assume that the ratio of non-fiction [...]

]]> By: David Lufkin http://www.slushpile.net/index.php/2006/10/31/now-this-is-what-you-call-a-platform/comment-page-1/#comment-101094 David Lufkin Thu, 30 Nov 2006 17:00:50 +0000 http://www.slushpile.net/index.php/2006/10/31/now-this-is-what-you-call-a-platform/#comment-101094 I'm not sure that platforms don't apply to fiction writers, they just may be more subtle. My understanding is that agents/publishers would prefer that even their fiction writers have a platform; i.e.; "I'm a successful lawyer, and I can make every partner in my firm buy this book and review it on Amazon..." Not being cynical here, but it's out there. A platform could be a famous relative, an angle, a hook. Just ask Rebecca Miller... I’m not sure that platforms don’t apply to fiction writers, they just may be more subtle. My understanding is that agents/publishers would prefer that even their fiction writers have a platform; i.e.; “I’m a successful lawyer, and I can make every partner in my firm buy this book and review it on Amazon…” Not being cynical here, but it’s out there. A platform could be a famous relative, an angle, a hook. Just ask Rebecca Miller…

]]> By: anonymous http://www.slushpile.net/index.php/2006/10/31/now-this-is-what-you-call-a-platform/comment-page-1/#comment-91393 anonymous Sat, 04 Nov 2006 14:05:05 +0000 http://www.slushpile.net/index.php/2006/10/31/now-this-is-what-you-call-a-platform/#comment-91393 I wrote the original question to Miss Snark about platform because I was freaking out trying to figure out what my "platform" was after being advised by "someone in the know" that I needed to build a platform before pitching my novel to agents. Misinformation in the business of publishing, I'm guessing, has caused more than one writer to have a sleepless night or worse. Thank heavens for blogs like this and Miss Snark's. I wrote the original question to Miss Snark about platform because I was freaking out trying to figure out what my “platform” was after being advised by “someone in the know” that I needed to build a platform before pitching my novel to agents.

Misinformation in the business of publishing, I’m guessing, has caused more than one writer to have a sleepless night or worse. Thank heavens for blogs like this and Miss Snark’s.

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