Author Reality: Charles Sterling on Marketing + Audio/Podcast

da-AL
9 min readJan 5, 2023

Marketing, building a platform as a writer… There’s more to being a novelist than most people think…

Self-portrait of author Charles Sterling.

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I’m no expert on how to market fiction writing. Although I’ve produced video documentaries, radio news, published non-fiction articles and a short story or two, I’m still getting my novels ready to publish. What I know for certain is I’m having fun here — meeting you as I build my author platform! Who knew I’d encounter so many friendly people from all over the world, who would open my ridiculously sheltered eyes?

Before I started blogging, I romanticized the role of Author with a capital “A.” No need to lift a finger to sell their books. On talent alone

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