{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"BBAB 226: Create Your Author Platform Month Closes with Illustrator Sandy Williams","description":"Brain Burps About Books Podcast #226\r\nCreate Your Author Platform Month Closes with Illustrator Sandy Williams\r\nIllustrators Need Platforms, Too!\r\nI am grateful for \r\n\r\nTim McCanna and his awesome jingle. The original one, but also the new one he created and edited for me.\r\nKellie Johnston, for the lovely thank you note she wrote to me on how I changed her career in three minutes!\r\nThe peeps who have been showing up to my hangouts. Do you have any idea how awks it is to talk to your iMac, alone in your office? No one responding? But if you know there are viewers, especially ones who are entering questions, well, that’s something to be grateful for!\r\nThe peeps who’ve been thanking me for my free training.\r\nMy new students. Not only am I grateful, I’m impressed. You’ve taken a leap of faith in your own career. Nicely done.\r\n\r\nAnnouncements\r\n\r\nWe have a brand spankin' new Facebook group just for YOU, my peeps! Let's take the podcast topics one step further and get down to the nitty gritty. Join here: www.katiedavis.com\/podcastgroup\r\nFree training is only available until Sunday, May 3rd! New Flash Training included: www.katiedavis.com\/freetraining\r\nThe tables were turned. I was a guest on the Biz Chix Podcast! Check it out HERE.\r\nI'm teaching a picture book workshop at Yale this June! Join me during Session 2 HERE.\r\n\r\nThis Week's Guest is Sandy Williams!\r\nThis week’s guest is Sandy Williams. Sandy is an illustrator and was one of my Crank It Up Implementation students this winter. She specializes in natural science illustration and design. Sandy also teaches courses in learning to paint with gouache, the medium she uses most for her illustration and design work.\r\nSandy and I talk about \r\n\r\nHow creating a platform has helped her sell her book.\r\nHow creating a platform has helped her create an email list.\r\nHow Sandy went from flailing to goal setting.\r\nAs a non-techy, how she’s creating her platform using video.\r\nWhat would happen if past-Sandy met present-Sandy!\r\n","author_name":"Brain Burps About Books","author_url":"http:\/\/katiedavis.com\/podcast\/","html":"