Entries Tagged as ‘Platform’

September 2, 2007

The book blog tour.

Kara Jesella writes, “The Author Will Take Your Q.’s Now” in today’s Style section of The NYTimes about a new trend in promoting books. In the article Jesella writes,
“Bloggers have written about books since, well, the beginning of blogging. But a blog book tour usually requires an author or publicist to take the initiative, reaching [...]

May 2, 2007

Platform

I found the perfect young woman to write about. Her name is Mollie Singer (www.curemoll.com) and she was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when she was 4 years old. She is the perfect role model and I’ve written a query to Seventeen magazine in hopes that they will let me write a story about her. [...]

April 27, 2007

Target Audience

In my platform building class with Christina Katz I am thinking about how to reach my target audience. I want to write an article for Seventeen magazine about how to tell your friends about your chronic disease. I remember this being an issue for me in high school. “I’m diabetic” or, “I have diabetes” I didn’t like the sound. [...]