Author Promotion

If you’re a new author building your first website, using free content resources can help you create posts, pages, and media quickly. You want your site ready in time to support your book launch. Building your website from scratch might seem overwhelming at first. You need to create text content and images to promote your…

You entered your book title or author name, but can’t find your book in Amazon Search. Well, don’t panic. It’s not just you, because it’s quite common for a new book not to show up right away. While it could be for a number of reasons, the one thing to keep in mind is that…

Successfully self-publishing a book always relies on having the best tools for author branding and book marketing. It’s a huge time investment to write a book. But equally, the time you invest in promoting yourself and your book or books can also be demanding. When is the best time to start? Yesterday! Publishing a book…

It’s no secret that most authors don’t like marketing and book promotion. Writing a book is usually a solitary activity of transforming your thoughts into words. Marketing, however, often feels like the opposite because you have to interact, communicate, and put yourself forward. While not necessarily introverted, many writers and authors are often hesitant and…

If you’re a new self-publishing author, you need a website and blog to promote your books. But the cost of your author website needs careful planning and budgeting. Luckily, you have plenty of choices. Your initial set-up cost can range from free to thousands of dollars. However, one aspect that many new authors often overlook…

When it comes time to write author bios and book descriptions, it can be a chore for many new authors. They are necessary for publishing a book, but finding inspiration and ideas is not always easy. Well, here is a way to make the task a little easier. With some help from artificial intelligence (AI)…

What’s the best author promotion tool you can use? It is probably right under your nose right now. It’s your blog. But how well are you using it to promote your writing or books? Most writers have a blog but do not always take full advantage of it. Even if you’ve been a bit lazy and…

Using your relationships to sell books is one of the most overlooked strategies in self-publishing. If you are a new author, it’s one of the best ways to help you get book sales as soon as you launch your new book. Because self-publishing a book or ebook is so easy, thousands of new authors release…

Is blogging for authors still worth it today? From my experience running a writing and publishing blog for many years, the answer isn’t a simple yes or no. What works now is very different from just a few years ago, mainly because of the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) in writing and search. If you’d…