When you’re building your author web site, do you spend any time thinking about how much information to share about yourself? About what email address to give out? About what might happen if you share too much? If not, maybe you should. For some authors, these are obvious questions. For instance, one author I’ve worked […]
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If you’re an author looking to get published by a major publishing house, you may want to consider posting your book on Harper Collins’ Authonomy website. Here’s the scoop…. Harper Collins describes the website as follows: authonomyTM is a brand new community site for writers, readers and publishers, conceived and developed by book editors at
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There was an interesting article in Publishers Weekly earlier this month that I thought I would share. It’s an interview with a variety of publishers and marketing executives dealing with how they market their fiction books, with a focus on their online efforts. You can read the full article, but here are some of the
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Too many people think that author websites are only for published authors. But more and more people have figured out how to use websites to actually get themselves published. Here’s how they’re doing it…. Why Build a Website Odds are that you’re going to be submitting a proposal or manuscript to a publisher at some
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A little off the topic of our usual blog entries, but I thought this might be a new and different way to say goodbye. One of the members of the Smart Author Sites staff, Stacey Elms, will be leaving us next month to go on to bigger and better things. So I want to use
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Do you have a media page on your author website? It’s purpose is to provide the media with the information they might need to feature you in their next piece. If you decide to have a press page on your website, here are some ideas about what it should include: Downloadable Cover Art (both in
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Authors are writers. Which means that most authors I work with don’t hesitate to write the copy for their own writer website. After all, a writer is a writer, right? Well, not necessarily. Now this doesn’t mean that authors shouldn’t be taking a stab at writing their own content. They should, because no one knows
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Here’s another online author marketing tip from our friend Michael Volkin at Social Networking for Authors… I have been getting better and better at creating author promotion videos to help authors have a professional presence online. Check out a couple videos I have recently created: http://www.sellatonofbooks.com/author_video_promotion.html By and large the author promo videos I see
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Earlier this week, I posted a blurb about what people are looking for on author websites. Today, I want to continue the thought and discuss Google Analytics and why every author website should have it. First, for those who aren’t familiar with it, Google Analytics is a free service offered by Google to anyone who
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Ever wonder what people really look at on an author website? Or what makes them want to come back to the site regularly? We now have some insight. In browsing some other blogs and online conversations, I have amassed a list of the things that people say they most want to see on author web
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