William Eamon is a Regents Professor of History and dean of the Honors College at New Mexico State University. He’s also the author of Science and the Secrets of Nature: Books of Secrets in Medieval and Early Modern Culture and the co-editor of Beyond the Black Legend: Spain and the Scientific Revolution. In addition, he […]
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It used to be that an author could just be an author: sitting at home and doing what they love. That’s no longer the case. Whether today’s authors are self-publishing or going through a publishing house, one thing is a given. They have to do their own promotion. Publishers will only put time and money
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I came across this article on Publishers Weekly this morning. It talks about a firm’s new marketing strategy for authors, which allows them to promote books for a long period of time — not just the weeks leading up to and following a book’s release. Basically, the idea is this: the marketing firm builds a
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One of the things I frequently recommend for an author homepage is a “welcome” message, in which you give first-time visitors a good understanding of who you are, what you write about, and what people will get out of your book and your website. It’s Marketing 101: If a visitor can’t figure out the point
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I came across this post on a message board, complaining that author websites are always boring. That got me thinking: How do you define ‘boring’? To whom are these sites boring? Are author websites supposed to be entertaining? What could authors do to make them more entertaining? Here’s the truth of the matter: author websites
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I’ve said for a long time that every author website should include a photo of the book cover(s) and links to buy on every page. But what’s become even more of an issue of late is the various ways a book can be sold, and the various vendors that sell it. When I first started
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An author needs a website. That’s a given. But who’s going to design it? And how should that process go? That’s a good question… Common mistake #1: An author designs his or her own website There are many technologies out there which make it easy for an author to sign up for a website hosting
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We continue our Author Success Story series by featuring William Yenner, author of American Guru. His website, AmericanGuru.net, receives over 5,000 visitors per month. Here’s how he did it… Who built your website? How was the experience? Built by Smart Author Sites, I was happy with the result. Especially liked the way the overall design
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I encourage all authors who are developing a website to have a newsletter sign-up area where they can start collecting names and email addresses. This list can be invaluable, because it’s comprised of people who have already expressed interest in your writing and want to hear from you. You couldn’t BUY a list like this.
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We continue our series on successful author websites by featuring Allie Phillips, author and animal rights advocate. Her website, www.AlliePhillips.com, aims to teach people how they can make a difference in the lives of animals (and sell her book, of course!). It gets close to 1,000 hits each month. So how did she do it?
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