Who are you? First, what name are you using? When I started writing, I knew that I would have to use a pen name. Here are tips that may cost you a little upfront time and money, but I feel like had I known about them before I embarked on the journey, I would have been better prepared. While I have yet to arrive, I have learned a few tips and tricks that may help aspiring authors look and feel like they are something more than they are until the big moment arrives. At the same time, social media posts and book event attendees desperate to make connections seemed to indicate there were tens of thousands of other people just like me scrambling to get noticed and somehow rise to the top by some miracle.įortunately, as a former intelligence professional who built front companies and fake personas, I decided to operationalize myself as a writer, so at the very least, I could appear to be more than I was to catch the eye and interest of the powers in publishing. Agents and publishers were asking about my marketing platform and sales numbers as if they hadn’t read the first word in my query line – DEBUT. I don’t know if it has always been the case for aspiring authors, but for me, starting as a clueless scribbler with a draft manuscript felt as though I had to already be a successful writer before I could even become one. Fake it Until You Make it: “How to Sell Yourself as a “Career Author” while you’re on the road to becoming one!”
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