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RE: Three Kinds of Followers You Want On Steemit and One You Don't! Building a Solid Follower Base Leads to Long Term Success!
getting your book published doesn't really have much to do with the quality of your writing, obviously you need to be able to communicate clearly, but at the end of the day you have to have the story they are looking for. When I tried to pitch a book to a book agent friend about my life experiences basically she was like "you haven't had an interesting life until at least 50" and even then you need something new that they are looking for to get a deal. Or be Hillary Clinton.
Well, that's definitely part of it. But, when they offer an advance, it means you've got chops. Those are rare these days, and for an agent from a major house like Random to say, three book deal, in an initial conversation is even rarer. They flew him out to meet. Waiting to hear what happens.
he must be some kind of hot shit
Well, I wrote him one hell of a book.
For the record, he's thirty. And it's a life story.
if he is going on speaking tours he already has a following willing to pay to hear what he has to say so clearly that is some interesting stuff.
Yeah, it's a great story.
I don't know your politics, so you may hate (or love) it's content, but what is your opinion of my formatting and presentation and such of my latest post?
Well. I'm libertarian, think Hillary is in bed with dangerous people and Donald Trump is a narcissistic moron in over his head. But, your formatting is not the problem.
First, your piece is too long. Cut it in half. There's really not that much to say about it. Your readers don't need a primer on Mockingbird, if they do, write one and link to it when you need to. Then, I think your category has low competition, but also low readership. And, your readers are simple folk, your title's not "clicky" enough. CNN Shares More Anonymous Lies About Trump Probe, or something to that effect.
that sounds like some excellent advice, thank you