Randy Bartz asked Darcy Leech:

What advice would you give to aspiring authors?

Darcy Leech o “The best writing is rewriting.” To have a marketable product, you have to spend time in revision. Even once you have a contract, you have to spend time in revision. Don’t expect someone else to catch every error and give you a clean text without you doing the lion’s share of the work. You need to know your text better than anyone else because you’ve read it over so many times.
o Also, this is the social media era of book marketing. Build a platform with a wide base of social media reach over time. You can’t build a large Facebook account overnight because you’ll run into adding restrictions. You have to make your social media growth feel organic by doing a little each day until you have large accounts. Your tech skills will matter, and marketing really is a set of problem solving and creative thinking exercises to answer questions the generation before us hasn’t answered yet. So put on your thinking cap and try new things.

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