What happens when your superfans visit your site looking for the status of your upcoming book? If your site is like most author websites, they leave disappointed and frustrated. You just lost the opportunity to get them excited about your upcoming book and onto your email list where you can …
At Author Media we work with a lot of professional speakers. Their websites all need an event calendar to help build enthusiasm for upcoming events. The problem is, all the WordPress event calendars either were either way too complicated or did not work…. or both. We got so tired of …
We’ve spent quite a bit of time at Author Media talking about crowdfunding— what it is, how awesome it is, and how to make it happen. A few months ago, we turned that talk into action, and put our own “Crowdfunding Is Awesome” theory to the test in just about the most meta …
Kickstarter is changing the way that self-published authors are raising money for their books. Here are some hard lessons we learned on our first project.
Did you know there was a way to self publish with any company in the world without having to go out of pocket for the cost? Here is how to do it.
Should you look to your audience to provide the funds for your next book? Christy award finalist Mary DeMuth asks seven questions to help you decide.
Want to level up your publishing career? Here are 9 writing podcasts that can help authors like you.
