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The 4 Components to Building an Author Platform Written by:  Sandra N. Peoples - award-winning author and publisher with a business brain teaching authors and entrepreneurs on how to use books as a business tool to get clients.   http://sandranpeoples.com An author platform focuses on who you are as the author, and how many people you influence. It is what you represent. It is what comes to mind when people hear your name. There are four components to building a platform as an author. Authors should think of themselves in the same way as celebrities do. Becoming famous does not happen overnight. In fact, you don't become famous without having a following. And you can't have a following without first having a presence. People have to come to know you as an author. They must encounter your brand in order to get to you.  Many new authors tend to believe that the only thing they need to focus on is writing the book; when that is so far from the truth. As an author, ye...