Kari, the primary advantage is that people don't like to buy books
from author websites.
This article summarizes research done by the Codex Group about what readers want
from author websites.
Anything you use for marketing should offer a call to action,
from author websites, to rack cards, to business cards (click here to learn how to create a call to action on your writer business card).
via Darcy Pattison — After reviewing a survey about what readers expect
from author websites, Darcy Pattison revaluates her current website and blog and asks the questions, «Am I providing any of these things on a regular basis?
Mailing lists generated
from author websites are great because the author can quickly send emails to people who are actually interested in his messages.
Rather than listing a bunch of forums threads, websites and anecdotes from individuals, I've summed up the main features readers are looking for
from author websites they visit.
So, what does this really mean??? It means that when one book is purchased
from my Author Website and mailed to a reader in the U.S., I will donate approximately $ 7.00 to HDSA.
5) Back to Author Website - Because your direct - to - reader sales page is separate
from your author website, the «back to author website» button allows customers to return to your website.
I often suggest that authors use inventory they may have printed before switching to Ingram distribution for their own direct sales
from their author website, giveaways, and author events, but I also recommend they get broader book distribution by setting up the book through a POD / distribution program like IngramSpark.
Mailchimp also integrates painlessly with Wordpress so you can sign people up to your list straight
from your author website.
For a fiction book, I would have told her to basically copy
from my author website — which I don't actually have, but would include:
Using these keywords is important because it increases the chance that someone's random Google search for information about a topic related to you and your book might pull in your bio
from your author website, Amazon etc. and lead this searcher to you.
Picture of John Michael Ward Bingham
from author website Picture of Richard Tomlinson from HenryMakow.com Picture of Graham Greene from Graham Greene festival Picture of Paul Dukes from Spartacus Educational Picture of John le Carré from crimefictionlover.com Picture of Ian Fleming
from author website
Import the blog
from your author website (it will automatically post your most recent blog posts to Goodreads this way).
I'm sure that many of you who receive my monthly newsletter will already have guessed that for the newsletter includes posts from this blog and
from my author website.
Biography
from author website.
Copied over
from my author website, here are some free and low cost resources I have used in the past.
One of them posted a link to my 350 - pound picture
from my author website.
(Hint: If you're going to direct people away
from your author website, be sure that your links open in a new window.)
Paperback purchase
from this author website for $ 16.95 with FREE shipping (media mail delivery) for a savings of $ 3.00 from the Amazon price.
A great feature is to install a contact form, so your fans and readers get in touch with you directly
from your author website.
I have the entire text of Book I of the trilogy posted on my website: whenwomenwerewarriors.com, and I am giving away free ebooks of Book
I from my author website: catherine-m-wilson.com.
You can also find more about selling direct
from your author website in this post from Tech Expert, Carla King.
Apart
from your author website, it would also be nice to have a separate website for your latest release.
6 Things Readers Want
from Your Author Website Does your author website measure up?
Not exact matches
Aside
from over 30 years of industry experience, Jack is a published
author «Secrets of the Trading Pros», Wiley 2007 and has countless articles published in industry periodicals and
websites.
On June 6,
author and pastor John Pavlovitz wrote a post on his
website titled «To Brock Turner's Father,
From Another Father.»
Amazon, Barnes and Noble and WH Smith were just a few of the e-book retailers found by The Kernel, an online muckracking
website based in the United Kingdom, to be selling e-books
from self - published
authors glorifying such topics as rape, incest and bestiality.
People who carry a balance on their credit cards typically pay rates of 17 percent or higher, according to Nick Clements,
author of «Secrets
From An Ex-Banker: How To Crush Credit Card Debt» and co-founder of price comparison
website MagnifyMoney.
As I had covered Xn carnage for the Door
from 1994 till the rag shut down the
website in 2008, I «thought» (silly me) that they'd welcome my critique so they could avoid becoming like those branded Christian celebrities / religious rock stars we had both satirized only to become that which they once despised once they hit the
author / speaker circuit.
The
author of Sexless in the City: A Memoir of Reluctant Chastity, she holds an M.A. in religious studies
from Arizona State University and has written for The Atlantic
website, Books and Culture, Paste, The Journal of the History of Sexuality, Christianity Today, Beliefnet and other publications.
Here is one popular explanation
from a well - known
website and
author:
It will always be interesting to read through articles
from other
authors and use a little something
from their
websites.
From Michael Greger, M.D., FACLM, the physician behind the trusted and wildly popular
website Nutritionfacts.org, and
author of the New York Times bestselling book How Not to Die, comes a beautifully - designed, comprehensive cookbook complete with more than 120 recipes for delicious, life - saving, plant - based meals, snacks, and beverages.
Unauthorized use and / or duplication of this material without express and written permission
from this
website's
author and / or owner is strictly prohibited.
I've gotten the GF Almond Flour Cookbook
from the library and really like it; as a result I checked out the
author's
website and have bookmarked a bunch of her yummy recipes.
It will always be interesting to read articles
from other
authors and use a little something
from other
websites.
Don't forget to check out new shareable content
from SNA to help you positively promote your school meal program during SNEW, and all year; visit the School Lunch Hero Day
website to learn more about the history of the holiday, and
author Jarrett J. Krosoczka and his «Lunch Lady» series of graphic novels.
In this article
from The Huffington Post,
author Chris Elam talks about the launch of our groundbreaking new
website advocating for major reform in school food, The Lunch Box.
Free Range Kids is a
website created by Lenore Skenazy, an American columnist,
author and reality show host, out of the desire to fight the belief that our children are in constant danger
from creeps, kidnapping, germs, grades, flashers, frustration, failure, baby snatchers, bugs, bullies, men, sleepovers and the perils of a non-organic grape.
The above quote, taken
from a news story in the Temple University
website, suggests that Dr. Weinraub,
author of a recent and widely reported study on infant and toddler sleep and night waking patterns, sees only one possible solution for parents who are stressed by their babies» nightwaking.
Comments on this
website are the sole responsibility of the comment's
author and by posting the
author assumes full responsibility, liability, and blame for any libel or litigation that results
from something written in or as a direct result of something written in a comment.
I've found instructions on what to do and how to do it in the guide «How to teach a baby to fall asleep alone»
from I think the
author's
website http://www.parental-love.com
First
author Professor Martin Hrabe de Angelis, Director of Institute of Experimental Genetics at the Helmholtz Zentrum München, who invented the mouse clinic concept, said: «Our findings with regard to the genes examined are now available to the scientific community as a valid data set, which can be downloaded free of charge
from the IMPC (International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium)
website, and form an excellent basis on which we and other research groups can develop and test new hypotheses.»
The e-mail (whose
author did not respond to an e-mail
from ScienceInsider for comment, and which was also posted on Brookes's blog and then removed) listed Brookes» work address and said, «his hate
website is a menace to scientific society.»
One of the
Authors from the now defunct The Oil Drum
website is more sanguine, if you can call it that.
Authors will benefit
from the robust journal activities including very rapid review (average time to decision is less than 23 days, 14 days to online publication), high visibility and impact (papers publicized on journal
website, monthly newsletters, Facebook, Twitter, 2011 impact factor 3.368,), and
author services (connection to nomenclature services, pre-publication annotation of data for submission to data resources and repositories, as well as video and other alternative content as part of the embedded content).
With a re-launch of the
website on the horizon, readers will soon be treated to up to seven posts a day
from a variety of
authors, giving you ever - changing guidance and inspiration for your fitness goals.
I don't know if this was one he recommended or not, but, Joel Fuhrman, MD,
author of Eat To Live and The End of Diabetes and The End of Dieting offers a DHA and EPA supplement
from his
website, and All Profits Go To The Nutritional Research Foundation, thus he gets no profit
from it, and it helps fund further research into nutrition.
It's always useful to read content
from other
authors and practice something
from other
websites.