Three Cheers for Amazon's Newly Redesigned Author Central Page.

I am sharing this post by Lois W. Stern, a regular contributor on my #TheNewBookReview page and avid advocate for authors there too.  It's all part of her #AuthorsHelpingAuthors project. You'll find details on how to utilize her free aids for yourself there at www.thenewbookreview.blogspot.com.  And because your Author Central Page is so important,  I'm thrilled that she has written this reminder! Did you know that Amazon sells 50% of the world's paper books and 70% of the world's digital books? 

Three Cheers for Amazon

By Lois W. Stern

Doing my Happy Dance 'cause Amazon has done something for us authors that I'm really excited to share! So if you haven't created or updated your own Author Central page, why not jump on the bandwagon and do it now. Here's why:

They've created a whole new look for our Author Central pages.

Aside from a nice clean look, under the 'MY BOOK' category, you can now add both the titles of your own books and also titles of other authors’ books you have particularly enjoyed. Then, as if by magic, a picture of the cover of each book  pops up next to your recommendation.

Amazon gives you several categories (listed below), so there’s room for you to recommend a number of different books. And just like eye candy, seeing those colorful book covers can keep us riveted!

Categories for your books:

My most talked about book

If you want to get lost in a story, I recommend my book

My book I wish more readers knew about

If you are new to my work, I recommend

Categories for books by other authors

If you want to get lost in a story

A book I couldn’t put down’

if you like my work I think you will like 

Nothing is perfect and there is one caveat that needs redesign: Under each posted book I see the following: 

 

I have already called Amazon to explain that we prefer to sell paperback editions of our books, and asked that right under Kindle Edition they post: 

                                       Paperback Edition with its link. 

If you agree, perhaps you also can go to Amazon's HELP page and send them a note, or give them a call. That's how we make things happen.

 

A footnote from Lois

 I invite you to visit my Tales2Inspire Author Central page here. You will note that I limited my 'Books by other authors' recommendations to those who previously had won  

Tales2Inspire awards and went on to publish full length books. But if you are a fan of Tales2Inspire books, I'd be more than pleased if you choose to recommend one of them on your Author Central page!

The Tales2Inspire 2023 contest is off and running. Both aspiring and accomplished writers are welcome to enter - for FREE. Click for details, and be sure to follow all instructions carefully.

 

Lois W. Stern:

Lois W. Stern Announces Her FREE "Authors Helping Authors" Project/Contest 2023

 Tales2Inspire® Offers Talented Writers a Great Opportunity to Showcase Their Writing Talents  . . . for FREE

Carolyn Howard-Johnson invited me to post this notice on Sharing With Writers "because benefits for writers are so good, all frugally (free!)".

Twelve years ago I created Tales2inspire®, an "Authors Helping Authors" worldwide PROJECT/CONTEST for writers seeking more recognition for their talents. 

👉Tales2inspire® is an "Authors Helping Authors" project because each author whose story makes it through phase one, gets critiqued by three other such authors, with the opportunity to edit and resubmit.

👉 Tales2inspire® is also a contest, with the best of the best published in our annual award winning anthology. 

👉 And if your story is really great, it gets published and you get lots of FREE PR to help you brand yourself as an author of talent. All you need is some writing skills, a bit of energy and an inspiring story to share. 

NO FEES INVOLVED

Announcing the Tales2Inspire 2022 Short Story Contest - No Submission Fees

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Attention All Authors 

Want a FREE personalized banner to use for all your marketing needs? 

(It would look like the prototype pictured here, but with your full color book cover and headshot in place of the black silhouettes.)

My dream of building a community of “Authors Helping Authors” sometimes keeps me awake at night. I know how hard it is for authors to get book reviews these days. So I volunteered to work with Carolyn Howard-Johnson on her fabulous TheNewBookReview blog, ‘cause It just seemed like a perfect place to reach thousands of avid readers and writers.)

We now have over 150 books listed for authors seeking reviews, a wonderful outpouring of requests for a wide variety of titles. Can I count on you to become one of our Authors Helping Authors, join in this effort, write a review for a fellow author, and get a FREE banner as a thank you. 

Just follow these steps:

Click here (or copy and paste https://thenewbookreview.blogspot.com/2021/01/free-books-to-read-and-review.html

into your browser) to select a book listed in the genre of your choice.

Then Click here (or copy and paste https://thenewbookreview.blogspot.com/2021/11/how-to-get-freebooks-to-read-and-review.html into your browser) to learn the easy steps to contacting that author, writing and submitting your review, and doing a bit of self promotion at the same time.

I’ll be doing a happy dance for each author who writes a review for a fellow author through this “Authors Helping Authors” project.