Most author websites fail to sell enough books to reimburse the author for the cost of building the website.
Most author websites don't instill confidence / professionalism enough to sell books.
Most author websites irritate me.
Most author websites should include a home page, a book details page (one for each book you've published), book reviews, media appearances, an events calendar and a blog.
Most author websites get very little attention and generate only a handful of book sales.
Most author websites are terrible.
For some reason,
most author websites are awful.
The purpose of your website is to get fans and sell books, not just provide information, and there are a lot of strategies that
most author websites don't use (
most author websites are terrible in terms of actually converting prospects, so they aren't really good examples of what to do for yours.)
An Author Website is a critical part of your Self Publishing Toolkit, but for
most authors websites can be a real head - ache — just one more thing to do that takes them away from writing — so they slap up a free blog and call it done.
Not exact matches
The Tablet actually posted an article on its
website in which the
author suggested that asking children to say in The Confiteor «through my fault, through my fault, through my own
most grievous fault» while beating their breasts, was a form of psychological child abuse.
One
website stated that the
author had a severe case of candida and did the Coconut Detox and experienced «the
most horrible healing crisis to date, I experienced vomiting, diarrhea, racing heart, shivering, severe bouts of pain, massive insomnia and severe anxiety» and went on further to say «I imagine a heroin withdrawal to be like this».
Author posts
most of her photos from
website.
Stephany Alexander is the
author of «Sex, Lies an the Internet» — An Online Dating Survival Guide, a relationship, infidelity and dating expert and founder of WomanSavers.com Free Date Screening Service, one of the
most popular women's
websites in the world.
About
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websites.
One of the
most common and affordable all - in - one platforms is WordPress, and if you need help using it for the first time, read my recent post on how to set up a basic
author website using WordPress.
(Here's the
website listing Hachette's
authors, highlighting bestsellers, of course, but like
most publishers they have a mob of midlisters.)
Most author's
websites don't.
Once you've set up your
author website and updated your social media profiles, one of the
most effective ways to rise above the noise is to convince an influencer in the media to put you in front of their audience.
Pirate
websites like this thrive when users refuse to pay for content, and in the end,
authors suffer the
most.
Whodunit columnist Bruce Tierney has called Nesbo's protagonist Harry Hole «one of the
most compellingly flawed protagonists in contemporary suspense fiction,» and the Norwegian
author is touted (okay, on his own
website) as «Europe's New Star of Crime Fiction.»
Or should I also point out that the
author of this article and self - appointed editor in chief of this site is also the owner of the
website and the company behind it and that it's
most likely the only reason why he is allowed to write articles on it?
Even if I read a really good book, I will
most likely not go on the
author website.
Use your book's cover as your avatar and create a witty and informative bio, complete with a link to the
most engaging and user - friendly part of your
author website.
The
most critical areas for laying the groundwork for long - term success is product optimization and a strong
author website.
We touched on this above, but the
most important piece of an
author website will be the content.
Blog (maybe):
most people will tell you that it's imperative to have a blog on your
author website.
It's scary for
most authors to do, but I recommend preselling your book on your
website as soon as you have confirmed the cover.
Most authors spent 28 % of their overall budget on advertising, 15 % on their
websites and 14 % on buying promotional copies as well as copies they sell direct to readers.
Unfortunately,
most aspiring
authors don't understand that you need to create an
author website before you need it.
Experts suggest creating an
author website is one of the
most important tasks for aspiring writers.
One of the
most potent is the
author website.
Perhaps the single
most important marketing tool you can leverage to your advantage is your
author website.
What's your
most important task if you want to become a published
author: Practice writing, plan a book or create an
author website?
This includes almost every
author website ever made, and
most of the
author websites made professionally by
author -
website - making - companies.
A successful promotion strategy will extend beyond networking, conferences, and Amazon — you'll need to set up an
author website, a blog, and
most important, social media profiles.
Great reviews featured prominently in promo materials: If you do have glowing reviews, make the
most of them by putting them front and center on your
author website, cover art, and other promo materials.
Claim your URL, post a bit of information that directs readers to the
websites where you are
most active, and ensure that this essential piece of your
author platform belongs to you — and not someone else who happens to have the same name.
He is one of the
most followed
authors on Wattpad, (the foremost
website for published and unpublished
authors to showcase their work) having 8,410 followers, over 1,000 Votes of Recommendation and a readership of a quarter of a million.
But this mailing doesn't just help you for the one month you are in it, the email reminds the recipient that
most of our
authors participate in our Book Donation program and encourages them to look through our
website for more books they may be interested in.
As for the second question,
most authors will probably hire freelance services or book marketers to take care of things like
websites, email marketing, social media, book trailers, etc..
Add to this that
most authors have very little business sense or experience in online marketing: so even the
author websites that look pretty good, don't help sell any books.
As perhaps the
most prominent exemplar and champion of self - publishing, he is doing indie
authors a huge service through his constant public advocacy, including his indispensable and seminal «
Author Earnings»
website and reports.
There are five
most important aspects of the publishing process and many tools for each which are available on my
Authors Wish
website within these segments.
Meanwhile Amazon has a virtual
website only and can not put its own
authors in the forefront, while their Digital Text Platform continues to be THE
most popular self
authoring program on the internet.
The
website is beautiful, and nowadays it's almost a given that
most authors have one.
Creating and maintaining a
website takes time and resources, something that
most authors don't have a lot of.
Members of the AAR are some of the
most successful (and ethical)
author representatives in the world, and the AAR has a member directory on their
website.
Most authors, especially new ones, want to drive buyers to the
website.
Most of you probably already know that your
author websites are considered the hub of your promotional platform and everything outside of this such as, social media, forums and events work at drawing viewers and readers deeper into your web, with the purpose of landing at your
website or directly buying your book.
Most writers simply include links to their social media accounts on their
author websites, then link to their
websites from the bio section of their social media profiles.