While you definitely want to promote your
writing on your author website, you can also give visitors a glimpse into your personality through a short bio, personal photos, or blog posts!
While excerpts of poems, books, stories, and essays are generally safe to
share on an author website, posting full versions may hinder your ability to find a publisher later on.
This post is about affiliate marketing, but it's something that authors should be doing
on your author website in order to add another source of income to your business.
Doing these things not only
on your author website About Page, but consistently over your author platform, will entice others to find out more about you and follow you.
Even if you're not sure about sending out newsletters yet, start collecting email addresses
on your author website for the day you decide to do it.
When readers write to you using the contact
form on your author website, you can have their email addresses automatically added to your mailing list.
The descriptions provided and the ratings are helpful; but nothing compares to actually putting them to
use on YOUR Author Website.
Specifically, let's go through the list of what fans
want on an author website and see how you might plan for this as you write.
Okay, it's us — but it's true: Sharing your favorite
quotes on your author website will offer your visitors a window into your interests, beliefs, and aspirations.
10 - 12 weeks — Contact bloggers and reviewers; determine how the book's release page will
look on your author website; contact any local bookstores you plan to use for signings.