Comments on: How Can You Get Published If You Don’t Have a Platform? http://michaelhyatt.com/how-can-you-get-published-if-you-don%e2%80%99t-have-a-platform.html Intentional Leadership Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:16:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Daren Sirbough http://michaelhyatt.com/how-can-you-get-published-if-you-don%e2%80%99t-have-a-platform.html/comment-page-2#comment-139368 Daren Sirbough Tue, 03 Jan 2012 23:24:00 +0000 http://michaelhyatt.com/2009/04/how-can-you-get-published-if-you-don%e2%80%99t-have-a-platform.html#comment-139368 I think most people have the life experience to write on most articles of content. I think someone should write the blog post with a list of articles to write on. Perhaps it shall be...... I think most people have the life experience to write on most articles of content. I think someone should write the blog post with a list of articles to write on. Perhaps it shall be……

]]> By: Jean | Delightful Repast http://michaelhyatt.com/how-can-you-get-published-if-you-don%e2%80%99t-have-a-platform.html/comment-page-2#comment-139202 Jean | Delightful Repast Tue, 03 Jan 2012 18:15:00 +0000 http://michaelhyatt.com/2009/04/how-can-you-get-published-if-you-don%e2%80%99t-have-a-platform.html#comment-139202 Thank you, Michael, for this information. Looks like I'm closer to having a "platform" than I thought -- about 2/3 there! Is it too soon to start looking for an agent?  Thank you, Michael, for this information. Looks like I’m closer to having a “platform” than I thought — about 2/3 there! Is it too soon to start looking for an agent? 

]]> By: Barry Hill http://michaelhyatt.com/how-can-you-get-published-if-you-don%e2%80%99t-have-a-platform.html/comment-page-2#comment-138695 Barry Hill Tue, 03 Jan 2012 03:54:00 +0000 http://michaelhyatt.com/2009/04/how-can-you-get-published-if-you-don%e2%80%99t-have-a-platform.html#comment-138695 Daren, I am with you 100%. I think the biggest challeng in blogging is trying to find daily content that is compelling. However, I will say that after you push through it, it ends up being one of the biggest blessings as well. Daren,
I am with you 100%. I think the biggest challeng in blogging is trying to find daily content that is compelling. However, I will say that after you push through it, it ends up being one of the biggest blessings as well.

]]> By: Daren Sirbough http://michaelhyatt.com/how-can-you-get-published-if-you-don%e2%80%99t-have-a-platform.html/comment-page-2#comment-138693 Daren Sirbough Tue, 03 Jan 2012 03:33:00 +0000 http://michaelhyatt.com/2009/04/how-can-you-get-published-if-you-don%e2%80%99t-have-a-platform.html#comment-138693 Finding topics is the thing that keeps me from blogging consistantly. And I also have been writing around 400-600 words. I don't think I can keep up with that pace. Perhaps I need to do much less to keep it consistent. Finding topics is the thing that keeps me from blogging consistantly. And I also have been writing around 400-600 words. I don’t think I can keep up with that pace. Perhaps I need to do much less to keep it consistent.

]]> By: Dr. Stalworth http://michaelhyatt.com/how-can-you-get-published-if-you-don%e2%80%99t-have-a-platform.html/comment-page-2#comment-136849 Dr. Stalworth Fri, 16 Dec 2011 22:04:00 +0000 http://michaelhyatt.com/2009/04/how-can-you-get-published-if-you-don%e2%80%99t-have-a-platform.html#comment-136849 Dr. Stalworth Hi Mike, Yes, its evident that you are a brilliant man.  I'm going to get started on creating a 'Platform.'  The one question I have is "How do I start a blog like this one." I am already with facebook, but I need to also join twitter. Thanks for the info Mike.  Dr. Stalworth

Hi Mike,

Yes, its evident that you are a brilliant man.  I’m going to get started on creating a ‘Platform.’  The one question I have is “How do I start a blog like this one.”

I am already with facebook, but I need to also join twitter.

Thanks for the info Mike. 

]]> By: Bruce Schultes http://michaelhyatt.com/how-can-you-get-published-if-you-don%e2%80%99t-have-a-platform.html/comment-page-2#comment-117880 Bruce Schultes Thu, 04 Aug 2011 14:31:00 +0000 http://michaelhyatt.com/2009/04/how-can-you-get-published-if-you-don%e2%80%99t-have-a-platform.html#comment-117880 I wonder about the ideas less traveled for which there is not a ready categorized set of readers.  Seems like a short pointed message - a voice in the wilderness - would never make it in today's marketplace.  Like Solomon said.  Too many books.  Who can even read all the titles with over 2000 being published every day.  If God's words are like gold and  mans words like straw - finding the golden needle in this haystack seems impossible.  Is it an industry for the profound or the profane?  Is it an industry to promote God or bury him in an unending stream of dusty utterance?  What makes us so wise?  God stopped at 66.  I want to write a book but I feel I am casting a poor echo into a churning sea of voices and to what effect? http://markthearrow.blogspot.com/search/label/Testimony I would write a book, but all I ever felt authorized to write, commanded to write, fit on four pages.  I blog, but my rants can't touch what He has already said and who am I that I should elect myself to be a fomentation.  Testify.  And the occasional love poem.  I do not want to be a lamp shade and obscure the more pure light of His original 66.  I am an arrow that can do nothing but point to the target, point to the word. For this, I need few words. That, for me, is the hard part.  Finding the authorization to say anything beyond my simple testimony, to say anything beyond the four pages I wrote in 2006. I wonder about the ideas less traveled for which there is not a ready categorized set of readers.  Seems like a short pointed message – a voice in the wilderness – would never make it in today’s marketplace.  Like Solomon said.  Too many books.  Who can even read all the titles with over 2000 being published every day.  If God’s words are like gold and  mans words like straw – finding the golden needle in this haystack seems impossible.  Is it an industry for the profound or the profane?  Is it an industry to promote God or bury him in an unending stream of dusty utterance?  What makes us so wise?  God stopped at 66.  I want to write a book but I feel I am casting a poor echo into a churning sea of voices and to what effect?

http://markthearrow.blogspot.com/search/label/Testimony

I would write a book, but all I ever felt authorized to write, commanded to write, fit on four pages.  I blog, but my rants can’t touch what He has already said and who am I that I should elect myself to be a fomentation.  Testify.  And the occasional love poem.  I do not want to be a lamp shade and obscure the more pure light of His original 66.  I am an arrow that can do nothing but point to the target, point to the word. For this, I need few words.

That, for me, is the hard part.  Finding the authorization to say anything beyond my simple testimony, to say anything beyond the four pages I wrote in 2006.

]]> By: adela tamayo http://michaelhyatt.com/how-can-you-get-published-if-you-don%e2%80%99t-have-a-platform.html/comment-page-2#comment-116358 adela tamayo Mon, 25 Jul 2011 11:52:00 +0000 http://michaelhyatt.com/2009/04/how-can-you-get-published-if-you-don%e2%80%99t-have-a-platform.html#comment-116358 I like this blog. I just found it the other day becasue I was looking for litrary agents that work with christian authors. I working on a book called confession of imperfect sinner. It my journey of walking with Jesus. I also started a blog but the book is only half way done.  Here is my blog if you want to check it out http://adelaslove.blogspot.com/ I like this blog. I just found it the other day becasue I was looking for litrary agents that work with christian authors. I working on a book called confession of imperfect sinner. It my journey of walking with Jesus. I also started a blog but the book is only half way done.
 Here is my blog if you want to check it out http://adelaslove.blogspot.com/

]]> By: Ivette http://michaelhyatt.com/how-can-you-get-published-if-you-don%e2%80%99t-have-a-platform.html/comment-page-2#comment-116236 Ivette Sat, 23 Jul 2011 18:41:00 +0000 http://michaelhyatt.com/2009/04/how-can-you-get-published-if-you-don%e2%80%99t-have-a-platform.html#comment-116236 Brilliant, practical advice that I need to put into action. Thanks! Brilliant, practical advice that I need to put into action. Thanks!

]]> By: Livia Blackburne http://michaelhyatt.com/how-can-you-get-published-if-you-don%e2%80%99t-have-a-platform.html/comment-page-2#comment-116059 Livia Blackburne Sat, 23 Jul 2011 01:10:00 +0000 http://michaelhyatt.com/2009/04/how-can-you-get-published-if-you-don%e2%80%99t-have-a-platform.html#comment-116059 Platform is good, but it has to be carefully done.  I actually think a lot of fiction writers are wasting their time by blogging without a purpose or blogging only for writers.  I blogged about that recently http://blog.liviablackburne.com/2011/07/author-blogging-youre-doing-it-wrong_21.html Platform is good, but it has to be carefully done.  I actually think a lot of fiction writers are wasting their time by blogging without a purpose or blogging only for writers.  I blogged about that recently

http://blog.liviablackburne.com/2011/07/author-blogging-youre-doing-it-wrong_21.html

]]> By: Tresha Thorsen http://michaelhyatt.com/how-can-you-get-published-if-you-don%e2%80%99t-have-a-platform.html/comment-page-2#comment-79588 Tresha Thorsen Wed, 08 Dec 2010 09:12:00 +0000 http://michaelhyatt.com/2009/04/how-can-you-get-published-if-you-don%e2%80%99t-have-a-platform.html#comment-79588 really practical sound nuggets here. thank you. stuff one knows and yet you helped echo the 'why' today when i needed that reminder. high five. ;) really practical sound nuggets here. thank you. stuff one knows and yet you helped echo the ‘why’ today when i needed that reminder. high five. ;)

]]> By: Tresha Thorsen http://michaelhyatt.com/how-can-you-get-published-if-you-don%e2%80%99t-have-a-platform.html/comment-page-2#comment-79587 Tresha Thorsen Wed, 08 Dec 2010 09:12:00 +0000 http://michaelhyatt.com/2009/04/how-can-you-get-published-if-you-don%e2%80%99t-have-a-platform.html#comment-79587 really practical sound nuggets here. thank you. stuff one knows and yet you helped echo the 'why' today when i needed that reminder. high five. ;) really practical sound nuggets here. thank you. stuff one knows and yet you helped echo the ‘why’ today when i needed that reminder. high five. ;)

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]]> By: Nicole http://michaelhyatt.com/how-can-you-get-published-if-you-don%e2%80%99t-have-a-platform.html/comment-page-2#comment-79538 Nicole Wed, 08 Dec 2010 02:08:00 +0000 http://michaelhyatt.com/2009/04/how-can-you-get-published-if-you-don%e2%80%99t-have-a-platform.html#comment-79538 I was challenged on this same thing at a writer's conference I went to recently. I had stopped blogging over a year ago because it didn't have much direction. Now I have a more focused idea in mind, but there seems to be so much to do before I can start again! I use Facebook and Twitter regularly, and have run the idea off friends for encouragement. There seems to be some interest in my topic, so - Lord willing - I will try to start again in January. I was challenged on this same thing at a writer’s conference I went to recently. I had stopped blogging over a year ago because it didn’t have much direction. Now I have a more focused idea in mind, but there seems to be so much to do before I can start again! I use Facebook and Twitter regularly, and have run the idea off friends for encouragement. There seems to be some interest in my topic, so – Lord willing – I will try to start again in January.

]]> By: SammcL http://michaelhyatt.com/how-can-you-get-published-if-you-don%e2%80%99t-have-a-platform.html/comment-page-2#comment-79461 SammcL Tue, 07 Dec 2010 22:17:00 +0000 http://michaelhyatt.com/2009/04/how-can-you-get-published-if-you-don%e2%80%99t-have-a-platform.html#comment-79461 Learned this lesson when I met with IVP in June... been steadily blogging since then. Wish there was a quick fix solution to get 1000 views a day... you know, besides inserting 'lindsay lohan celebrity rumors' into your tags. Is that cheating? ps. Mike, if you have a sec, check out my latest blog post on Atheists vs Christmas. If you don't laugh, I'll.... do better next time! http://thedefaultlife.com/popculture/can-busses-be-atheists/ Learned this lesson when I met with IVP in June… been steadily blogging since then. Wish there was a quick fix solution to get 1000 views a day… you know, besides inserting ‘lindsay lohan celebrity rumors’ into your tags. Is that cheating?
ps. Mike, if you have a sec, check out my latest blog post on Atheists vs Christmas. If you don’t laugh, I’ll…. do better next time!

http://thedefaultlife.com/popculture/can-busses-be-atheists/

]]> By: Michael Hyatt http://michaelhyatt.com/how-can-you-get-published-if-you-don%e2%80%99t-have-a-platform.html/comment-page-2#comment-79155 Michael Hyatt Sat, 04 Dec 2010 22:27:00 +0000 http://michaelhyatt.com/2009/04/how-can-you-get-published-if-you-don%e2%80%99t-have-a-platform.html#comment-79155 I doubt it. See above. On average, I think conservatives have a better chance of getting published than liberals. Please see my comment above. I doubt it. See above. On average, I think conservatives have a better chance of getting published than liberals. Please see my comment above.

]]> By: Michael Hyatt http://michaelhyatt.com/how-can-you-get-published-if-you-don%e2%80%99t-have-a-platform.html/comment-page-2#comment-79154 Michael Hyatt Sat, 04 Dec 2010 22:26:00 +0000 http://michaelhyatt.com/2009/04/how-can-you-get-published-if-you-don%e2%80%99t-have-a-platform.html#comment-79154 You mean like former President George W. Bush, #1 on the New York Times Best Sellers list as I write this, or Sarah Palin at #2, or Glenn Beck at #7? Seriously, I don’t think it makes any difference whether you are conservative or male. Liberal females might have the same complaint. Two thousand is not a big platform. I don’t intend to be cruel. It is a start. But a commercial publisher will be looking for way more than that. I would say you need a minimum of 10,000 unique visitors a month. The good news is that you have something to build on. I would suggest that you read my post, “<a href="http://michaelhyatt.com/so-you-can%E2%80%99t-seem-to-land-an-agent%E2%80%94now-what.html" title="" rel="nofollow">So You Can’t Seem to Land an Agent</a>.” It contains my best advice for someone in your situation. Thanks. You mean like former President George W. Bush, #1 on the New York Times Best Sellers list as I write this, or Sarah Palin at #2, or Glenn Beck at #7?

Seriously, I don’t think it makes any difference whether you are conservative or male. Liberal females might have the same complaint.

Two thousand is not a big platform. I don’t intend to be cruel. It is a start. But a commercial publisher will be looking for way more than that. I would say you need a minimum of 10,000 unique visitors a month. The good news is that you have something to build on.

I would suggest that you read my post, “So You Can’t Seem to Land an Agent.” It contains my best advice for someone in your situation.

Thanks.

]]> By: Stephen Hill http://michaelhyatt.com/how-can-you-get-published-if-you-don%e2%80%99t-have-a-platform.html/comment-page-2#comment-79153 Stephen Hill Sat, 04 Dec 2010 21:27:00 +0000 http://michaelhyatt.com/2009/04/how-can-you-get-published-if-you-don%e2%80%99t-have-a-platform.html#comment-79153 I am having this same problem. I have a platform and a well ironed manuscript, but I feel because my manuscript leans right I am being rejected. I would also like some input on this. I am having this same problem. I have a platform and a well ironed manuscript, but I feel because my manuscript leans right I am being rejected. I would also like some input on this.

]]> By: Frustrated writer http://michaelhyatt.com/how-can-you-get-published-if-you-don%e2%80%99t-have-a-platform.html/comment-page-2#comment-72996 Frustrated writer Thu, 21 Oct 2010 03:17:18 +0000 http://michaelhyatt.com/2009/04/how-can-you-get-published-if-you-don%e2%80%99t-have-a-platform.html#comment-72996 I have a solid platform of at least two-thousand, on fan created blogs. I even have a Wiki-page, but still I can't get published. Is it because the trend for books and the agency fields are Female-Liberal dominated? Am I being held back because I am a Male with conservative views in my writing? Solid Query Letter--Check Refined Manuscript--Check Platform--Check Now what? I have a solid platform of at least two-thousand, on fan created blogs. I even have a Wiki-page, but still I can't get published. Is it because the trend for books and the agency fields are Female-Liberal dominated? Am I being held back because I am a Male with conservative views in my writing?

Solid Query Letter–Check

Refined Manuscript–Check

Platform–Check

Now what?

]]> By: Matt Brown http://michaelhyatt.com/how-can-you-get-published-if-you-don%e2%80%99t-have-a-platform.html/comment-page-2#comment-57681 Matt Brown Tue, 29 Jun 2010 16:19:28 +0000 http://michaelhyatt.com/2009/04/how-can-you-get-published-if-you-don%e2%80%99t-have-a-platform.html#comment-57681 I am absolutely loving your blog and tweets. Thanks for taking time out of your busy schedule to pour your wisdom into people like me : ) Matt I am absolutely loving your blog and tweets. Thanks for taking time out of your busy schedule to pour your wisdom into people like me : )
Matt

]]> By: Nikole Hahn http://michaelhyatt.com/how-can-you-get-published-if-you-don%e2%80%99t-have-a-platform.html/comment-page-2#comment-47472 Nikole Hahn Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:29:44 +0000 http://michaelhyatt.com/2009/04/how-can-you-get-published-if-you-don%e2%80%99t-have-a-platform.html#comment-47472 Last summer I surrendered and began a twitter account. My biggest problem was what to post at 140 characters or less, and that was when I read your blog as well as a blog in Christianity Today regarding leadership. In 140 characters or less I can show people I care and maybe shine Jesus' light into that secular world. Where once I began a blog and Facebook and Twitter to build a platform, now I have multiple motivations to do this. I am encouraged by the responses and the people who choose to follow me. It is now fun and not a job in order to have an online presence when my book is ready to send to publishers/agents. Last summer I surrendered and began a twitter account. My biggest problem was what to post at 140 characters or less, and that was when I read your blog as well as a blog in Christianity Today regarding leadership. In 140 characters or less I can show people I care and maybe shine Jesus' light into that secular world. Where once I began a blog and Facebook and Twitter to build a platform, now I have multiple motivations to do this. I am encouraged by the responses and the people who choose to follow me. It is now fun and not a job in order to have an online presence when my book is ready to send to publishers/agents.

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