Advice for Writers on Building an Online Platform

As much as she hates to say it, professor and author Donna Arthur Downs believes social media is crucial for writers. If you don't have a following, she says, it will be difficult to get attention from traditional publishers. Downs herself recently took a class on children's writing where the students had to write a book proposal that included all of their social media accounts and their following on each platform. Why? Because literary agents and traditional publishers care about an author's online...