Building an Author Platform

Over the last few years, authors have been bombarded with the ‘advice’ that they must have an author platform, consisting of a blog, Facebook account, Twitter account and quite often accounts on other sites such as Goodreads. The corresponding moan among writers is that these things take up a huge amount of time and don’t allow you to write, which is the whole point of things after all!

Up till now, I’ve been a bit slow getting going. On the plus side, I did start this blog a few years ago...