Story Ally helps you transform research and insight into story. Book Coaching and Websites.
Platform Building Services
“Your platform is an established connection with your readers.”
the indelible apparatus
Building (and growing) a platform · is ·
book marketing for authors.
Agents want to know how robust your platform is because it tells them you have an audience and just how much of one you have. It’s somewhat of an insurance policy for taking you on. Story Ally can help you with the strategy and creative to build your audience as you write your book or book proposal, so that when you are ready to pitch your idea to agents and publishers, the slow and steady work of growing a platform is already underway.
Coaching · Articles + Blog Posts to Build Your Audience
We all have to start somewhere. So, let’s start now, while you are still noodling on your book idea, as a way to noodle on it more deeply! Take the first steps toward growing your audience while you test drive your idea through writing short-form content— pieces you post on your own blog, perhaps breathing new life into it, or as a guest blogger, or articles that you submit to online or print magazines. And then, when you go to write the marketing plan in your book proposal, guess what? What you propose is credible because you are already doing it. Here’s what we’ll do together:
Creative strategy session where we map out your book idea themes
Guidance on designing a cohesive, thematically related set of 4 articles or blog posts to start (that for you, behind the scenes, can act like sketches that flesh out different sub-points of your book idea)
Guidance on short-form publishing outlets
Feedback on your short form pieces, with a focus on narrative voice, that gets your work to a polished state ready for publishing
Strategy guidance on how to build your platform using this material
Inspired Websites
Your mission and your book’s vision translated into compelling web-based story telling for the people you seek to reach, artfully executed and UX driven. After dialogue, research and brainstorming with you, we integrate into the site creative audience building content and strategies. Website is completely, easily updated and managed by you once it's designed and built.
Creative Content
Copy — Need help curating, editing, or creating message-aligned website, email, or social copy? No problem, we’ll work together to get you any needed content.
Photography — Stunning photography, message aligned.
