Hopefully, if you're published, you have an author's page on Amazon. That page should have all your works carried by Amazon. I have my fantasy books and my romance novels on that page.
Smashwords lets you have an author's page and easy connect to all your work, though those of us who use Smashwords to self-publish suffer our share of frustrations with that platform.
I'm lucky enough to have the wonderful romance publisher, New Concepts Publishing, have an extensive author page for me on their site.
Crescent Moon Press has contracted the first book in my next epic fantasy series, and though it's months away, they already have set an author page for me.
Again, like most of you, I have a facebook presence, twitter, goodreads and even a neglected author's den persona. And many of these places make it possible to link to each other and to our blog or website. Links everywhere. Our name everywhere. It's difficult to keep up with all of them, but it is great to have all those connections to so many places and people in the business of writing and reading.
And just to add a few, my friend, Stephen Tremp, is busy finishing up his third novel and is offering his first book free on Kindle until Thursday night. You will really enjoy Breakthrough.Breakthrough
Another writer I've met in the blogosphere, Donna Martin, is having a contest to celebrate her blog anniversary. She's done an amazing job building a large following in a short period of time.
Are you linked up all over? Do you have a sure count of how many author pages you have on different sites?
16 comments:
I'm as linked as I want to be!
I'm not really ready to be more linked because I have no books for sale yet :D But someday I will be there, even if I'm self-publishing!
Congrats to Stephen Tremp!! I already have his first book ready to read, haven't done so yet but look forward to it :)
Schwoo! That just wore me out. Links! Links! And more links! It totally overwhelms my brain.
I have very few links since I'm not published yet. It's all I can do to keep up with what I've got!
Though I am published, I don't think I have that many links. Need to check them.
I'm getting there, but as I have nothing to offer quite yet, I probably don't have to be in too much of a hurry. Reading about it gets me excited, though! Can't wait to have an author page.
Not a published author yet, but you've given me some ideas. Thanks.
I didn't have near so many links before I was published. It's tough to keep up with all of them.
Some good ideas. I struggle to keep on top of my own platforms... I may need more time to add more:)
I think I'm overlinked! Site maintenance is sometimes a chore. My Author's Den page is also neglected, but it's because I didn't want to pay to upgrade. Too many sites charge fees I can't afford.
I'm also as linked as I want to be at this stage, but not as linked as I could be.
At this stage, I'm focusing on blogging and twitter, since anything else is superfluous when I'm not even published.
Still... I'm on LinkedIn, Goodreads and Facebook, although I don't have author pages yet. :-)
I'm not published, but even if I was, I'm not sure I could keep track of having more than a couple author pages. As it is right now, I'm only on Blogger. :P
I'd never even thought about that! I've got my blog, website, Twitter, and Facebook, and that's plenty for me right now.
You do make some good points in this one, Susan.
But, MORE links, sheesh! I'm about linked out and hardly have the time for what I do have.
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That is a lot of sites to manage.
I only have a few links out there . . .but I'll be working towards more when I self-pub in the next 3-6 months.
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