Welcome, Day Two of the 30-day Challenge for Authors.
I’m Judy Baker, book marketing mentor. We’re looking at my calendar here in Canva.
And today I am going to be talking about author profiles. So let’s go over to Amazon. What you want to do first is to claim your Amazon Author Central profile.
And you do that by going to Author Central and then marketing and distribution, you’ll be going to KTP and to your marketing page.
So let’s just zip over there and on your, on your page, you can see here’s author central, and it’s going to ask you to choose what market most of you, I believe will choose the amazon.com because you’re in the United States.
But if you were in another country, you would select the one that’s appropriate for you. From there, you can now see my Amazon Author Central profile.
What’s on my Author Profile page?
This is my photograph, taken by Star Dewar, a photographer. She’s done my headshots for years and you can find her at https://starshotsphotography.com/
So you want to have a good recent photograph of you up here and over time, you’re probably going to need to update it. Be sure if someone met you, they would know that’s you. So that’s a tip for you on all of your social media profiles so people can follow you.
But this is something really juicy. Your biography. Look how much you can put in here. (up to 1000 characters). And the one thing that I want to emphasize a good headshot and include your website URL. I’ve got two companies,
https://bookmarketingmentor.com and https://bookmarketingsociety.com.
You might also want to include how to reach you on social media. And you could, you could put those links in there as well. And I think I’m going to be updating mine a bit later today.
Look at how beautiful this page is. You can include video, you can link to your blog and every time you post it’ll show up, you can add other photographs.
So these are, these are additional headshots of me, but you could put shots of you doing something, maybe an event that relates to your book.
And when you are doing an event, you want to post it on your page. Now, these books around anthologies.
This is what it looks like when you start your Author Central journey, and it’ll ask you a bunch of questions and you can learn about it.
And it’ll tell you what you need to know. And once you have your Author Central profile up there, you can look at all your books.
You can look at your sales ranking and customer reviews, pretty sweet, pretty easy to get to. And that’s author.amazon.com/home. It’s your Author Central location.
But back to how do you claim a book when you’re not the primary author?
I have a special video for you showing you how to add books as a contributor to a publication.
How to Add a Book to Your Amazon Author Central Page
This video will talk to you or we’ll take you step-by-step through the process. And it was pretty easy. And all the books got added within a few hours. Sometimes it can take longer depending on what’s going on at Amazon.
So this is day two of the 30 day challenge.
You can find me at facebook.com/bookmarketingmentor, and post a link to your social media post, unless you’re doing Facebook. And then of course you can just share it to this page and you can find me at bookmarketingmentor.com.
I help authors get more bang for their book.
Come back tomorrow for day three of the challenge, and I’ll be talking about how you can make the back of your book one of your best sales tools.
Judy Baker, bookmarketingmentor.com
Links to places mentioned in this video:
Star Shots Photography
https://starshotsphotography.com/
How to Add a Book to Your Amazon Author Central Page
Author Central
KDP Marketing Resources
https://kdp.amazon.com/marketing/manager
Amazon Author Central
https://author.amazon.com/home
Author Page
https://author.amazon.com/help/G4C8HLZYK4ZHKNR2
My Author Central Profile
https://www.amazon.com/author/judy-m-baker
Where to find Book Marketing Mentor
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCih0o87hETXblMiVty6uIzw
https://www.facebook.com/bookmarketingmentor
https://bookmarketingmentor.com
