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Christina Katz is the author of Get Known Before the Book Deal , Use Your Personal Strengths to Grow an Author Platform and Writer Mama, how to Raise a Writing Career Alongside Your Kids for Writer's Digest Books. She has written hundreds of articles for national, regional, and online publications, presents at literary and publishing events around the country, and is a monthly columnist for the Williamette Writer . Katz publishes a weekly e-zine, The Prosperous Writer , and hosts The Northwest Author Series. She holds an MFA in writing from Columbia College Chicago and a BA from Dartmouth College. A "gentle taskmaster" to her hundred or so students each year, Katz channels over a decade of professional writing experience into success strategies that help writers get on track and get published. Q: What is a platform? CK: Long story short. Your platform communicates your expertise to others, and it works all the time so you don't have to. Your platform includes your ...

I mentioned Christina Katz 's website and newsletter, The Prosperous Writer earlier this year . Since the beginning of January, she has been providing a weekly article on the qualities of prosperous writers. I thought you might be interested to hear what she has mentioned so far. 1. Dedication 2. Self Respect 3. Focus 4. Service 5. Perseverance 6. Passion 7. Containment 8. Humility 9. Saleable 10. Accountability 11. Good Health 12. Balance 13. Creativity 14. Experience 15. Bravery 16. Groundedness 17. Happiness 18. Self Producing 19. Strong Boundaries 20. Clarity 21. Authenticity 22. Commitment 23. Vision 24. Slightly Dissatisfied (my personal favourite so far) 25. Rhythmic 26. Joyful 27. Integrated 28. Empowerment 29. Polite 30. Busy If you'd like to subscribe to this helpful and informative newsletter, visit her website .

This was a question posed recently by Christina Katz in her January issue of The Prosperous Writer newsletter. For those of you who haven't heard of this lovely, talented lady, she is the author of Get Known Before The Book Deal, Use Your Personal Strengths To Grow An Author Platform, and Writer Mama. She is a prolific writer of articles for regional, national and online publications, and uses her professional writing experience to 'help writers get on track and get published'. Christina explained her question further as 'who do you dedicate all your hard work to?'. As writers, we're often asked 'why' do we write but to ask whom we write for is an interesting slant on the root of our writing. It's equally as revealing as the why but for me much more thought provoking. At school, I suppose I wrote for my English teachers. For my business, Murdering The Text , I write for my clients - amateur theatre groups, schools and general fundraisers. However, w...