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My Scribd love affair con­tin­ues to deepen month after month.

This week­end, I’m hon­ored to return to the fab­u­lous South­ern Cal­i­for­nia Writ­ers Con­fer­ence where I’ll be speak­ing about Grow­ing Your Read­er­ship with Scribd​.com.

You’ll know why I love telling other writ­ers how I’ve built my writ­ing plat­form when you read what Michael Steven Gre­gory, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of The South­ern Cal­i­for­nia Writ­ers Con­fer­ence, wrote about my phe­nom­e­nal Scribd​.com journey:

“(Hyla’s) first time attend­ing a writ­ers’ con­fer­ence was last February’s SD24.  Net result, three agents request­ing her mem­oir, Drop Dead Life: A Preg­nant Widow’s Heart­felt and Often Comic Jour­ney through Death, Birth,  and Rebirth.  Then a funny thing hap­pened.  She dis­cov­ered the social read­ing and pub­lish­ing web­site Scribd​.com  and amassed 80,000 reads, prompt­ing two of New York’s Big Six to con­tact her directly request­ing the man­u­script.  Numer­ous speak­ing requests and inter­views fol­lowed.  Just how she built such a sin­gu­lar, mas­sive plat­form — and you can too — is what she’ll be address­ing in Feb­ru­ary.“ebruary’s SD24.  Net result, three agents request­ing her mem­oir, Drop Dead Life: A Preg­nant Widow’s Heart­felt and Often Comic Jour­ney through Death, Birth, and Rebirth.  Then a funny thing hap­pened.  Hyla dis­cov­ered the social read­ing and pub­lish­ing web­site Scribd​.com and amassed 80,000 reads prompt­ing two of New York’s Big Six to con­tact her directly request­ing the man­u­script.  Numer­ous speak­ing requests and inter­views fol­lowed.  Just how she built such a sin­gu­lar, mas­sive plat­form — and you can too — is what she’ll be address­ing in February.