Have you heard about Amazon’s new crowdsourcing publishing program? It’s called Amazon Kindle Scout, and it’s basically American Idol meets book publishing. Here are five things you need to know about this program that might just turn the publishing world upside down. 1. Almost anyone can post their manuscript to Amazon Kindle Scout. It’s kind of like […]
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Author marketing is kind of an oxymoron. After all, if you’re a good writer, chances are that you’re not a professional marketer. And in today’s publishing world, authors have to do their own book promotion. That creates quite a challenge. With that in mind, here are five things authors should be doing to promote their
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I often have authors ask me this question: “Can I sell books through my author website?” The answer is a resounding yes. In fact, there are a multitude of ways to do it. Here are your options. 1. Sell the book yourself through an online shopping cart. An online shopping cart allows you to sell
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WordPress has become the content management system of choice for a large majority of author websites. But WordPress also comes with a language all its own. If you’re just getting started on this journey, here are 10 terms you may hear or see in regards to your site – in alphabetical order — and what
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Let me start this post with a disclaimer. I have never — and I repeat, never — heard of a client getting sued for something that’s on their author website. That said, it doesn’t mean that you couldn’t get sued for something posted on your author website. With that in mind, and in the interest of helping
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There are a lot of things in life that take a pretty long time. Like building a strong relationship. Or making a baby. Or writing a book. Thankfully, there are other things that you can accomplish in a very short period of time. Learning about your author website and how it’s doing is one of
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There’s not much in the world that’s free. But in the case of the author websites we build, there are actually a bunch of exceptions to that rule — in addition to actually building and launching the website, of course. Here are 10 of them. 1. Submission to the major search engines. When we launch your
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There are lots of things that are givens on author websites, like details on the book or books, an author bio, a contact form, etc… But what makes author websites truly different and appealing is something that goes above and beyond. That’s why I always recommend that authors include bonus material on their site. Why
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Over the last two weeks, I’ve come across four really wonderful pieces of content (on other sites) about author websites and author marketing. Here’s a quick synopsis of each one, and links to read them in full. Authors won’t want to miss these! 1. 10 Ways Authors Can Help Each Other with Book Marketing http://buildbookbuzz.com/
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We recently received a request from a new client. He loved a previous author website design that we had built, and asked us to pretty much duplicate it exactly — just replacing the other author’s photos with his own. This led to quite a conundrum for us. And here’s why…. Legal Issues I’m not a
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