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2025 Laptop Buying Guide for Authors

Find the ideal laptop for authors and avoid overspending on unnecessary features that do not enhance your writing experience.

How to Grow Your Email List Fast With Giveaways

Need more subscribers? Explore the Kingsumo book giveaway technique that helped one author gain thousands of new emails.

Author Website Review: Christian Historical Romance

Explore strengths and weaknesses in website design and functionality for several bestselling historical Christian romance authors.

Read This Before Your Next Podcast Guest Interview

Learn how to sound like a pro during your podcast interview. Get tips on achieving good podcast sound without breaking the bank.

2024 Laptop Buying Guide for Authors

Authors can get overwhelmed by the process of choosing and buying a laptop computer. Find out what you need (or don’t need) and what works best.

AI for Authors – The Good, Bad, and Ugly

Discover the evolution of writing technologies and find out how AI for authors in 2024 can increase your productivity and improve your skill.

How to use Reedsy to Independently Publish Your Book

Find out how Reedsy can help indie and traditional authors create beautiful, compelling, and marketable books.

How to Publish on a Budget: Your First Five Years as an Author

Becoming a professional author will cost you. Find out how much and when an author should budget for their writing career.

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Author Websites

How to Create an Author Press Kit with Susan Neal

If you want to secure media interviews about your book, learn why you need an author press kit, what you should include, and where to place it on your website.

Is Your Author “About Me” Page Boring Your Readers To Death?

Most author About Me pages are as fascinating as Mr. Rogers’ sweater choices. Here’s how to craft a killer About page.

Author Media: The Behind-the-Scenes Story

Peek behind the scenes to find out how Author Media came to serve authors like you and how we’ll serve you in the coming years.

How Author Websites Irritate Readers (and what to do about it)

Have you ever been irritated by a website? Did you know that readers may be having that exact same experience when they visit your website? Ticking off your website visitors is a bad way to get more readers. Here are seven ways author websites annoy visitors and what to do about it.

Five Kinds of Author Homepages

Different kinds of authors need different things from their home pages. Make sure you have the right kind of homepage for your author website.

Where to Build Your Platform As an Unpublished Novelist

Now is the best time to start building your platform. Learn what to work on and what not to waste your time on.

110 – 11 Ways Proven to Draw Readers to Your Novel’s Website

In this podcast episode, we tell you what will thrill your readers on your author website and make them want to come back.

10 Common Author Homepage Mistakes & How to Avoid Them

Author’s make a lot of mistakes with their homepages. Here is how to avoid them and create a homepage that works.

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Blogging

10 Holiday Season Blog Prompts

'Tis the season to be busy. There are parties to attend, presents to buy and/or make, meals to cook, traditions to celebrate, family to visit, and a million and one other things to do that come with the holiday season. But despite being busy, you don't want to let...

How to Get Your Avatar to Show Up Everywhere

Have you ever noticed how some people’s photo’s appear next to their comments and others do not? We’ll teach you how to make that happen.

It’s Time to Switch Away From Google Reader

Are you reading this in Google Reader? If so, this should be the last post of ours that you read in Google Reader. It’s time to make the switch. Readers, have you made the switch? In case you’ve forgotten, Google Reader shuts down on July 1. That’s in just a few days....

How to Use Google Plus to Easily Record A Video Blog

When someone talks about the advantages of video blogging for your author platform does your heart start to race with that how-am-I-going-to-find-time-to-learn-another-new-thing feeling? First you’d have to figure out what technology you need, then you’d have to buy...

How To Create A Writing Schedule That Works For You

Do you want to write? You need a writing schedule. We’ll help you create one in this post.

The 6 Magic Words That Always Get Clicks

Discover which six magic words will get clicks for your blog. Just don’t use them all at the same time. That would be messy.

How to Schedule Your WordPress Posts

Ever wonder how the pro bloggers somehow manage to never miss a day of blogging? They schedule their posts. We’re going to show you how.

4 Free Photo Editing Tools You’ll Love

Want to save some money by taking your own pictures? Whip them into website-worthy shape with one of these 4 free photo editing tools.

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Branding

Six Things Readers are Looking for on Your Website

Seven Things Readers are Looking for on Your Website

How to Write to Market With Chris Fox

In this episode, we talk about how to write to market with Chris Fox an incredibly successful indie author of both fiction and nonfiction.

7 Tips for Best Selling Author Portraits

Seven tips to help you create an author portrait that captures your authentic self and communicates your brand.

097 – Major Mistakes You Might Be Making With Your Author Name

Learn how to choose a good author name. James L. Rubart shares the mistakes he made with his author name so you can avoid make them yourself.

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Podcasting

How to Sound Great As a Podcast Guest

Are you scheduled to come on a podcast as a guest? If you want to be invited back, or appear on any other podcast interviews for that matter, you need to have good audio. Many authors make the mistake of using their laptop's microphone and speakers. This will...

New Podcast: Creative Funding Show

We are launching a new podcast! The Creative Funding Show is a podcast where Author Media CEO, Thomas Umstattd interview Authors, YouTubers, and Podcasters who are funding their creativity using platforms like Patreon and Kickstarter. You will also...

The Best Podcasts For Authors & Writers

Want to level up your publishing career? Here are 9 writing podcasts that can help authors like you.

Announcing the Novel Marketing Podcast

Are you a novelist? Do you want to sell more of your books? If yes, we think you’ll love this brand new Podcast. It’s a Podcast on marketing designed specifically for novelists. For novelists who love marketing and even more so for novelists who would love the need...

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Public Speaking

Why Authors Need To Think Local Like George Bailey

In the age of the internet, it’s easy to want to compete globally. Just don’t forget the power of local.

Increase Speaking Gigs With BookTour.com

Imagine a website that would email thousands of people in your town to let them know where you are speaking next. Now imagine that this is free. Your imagination has become a reality. Read on for details.

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How To Split Test Your Book Title Ideas With Facebook Ads

Learn how to use reliable scientific data to help you choose the best title, cover, or blurb for your book.

How to Use Facebook To Promote Your Book

In this episode we are going to talk about the right way to use Facebook to sell more books! Last week we talked about why Facebook is overrated for book marketing, but we didn’t say it’s completely useless, so today we’re going to talk about the ways Facebook CAN...

Why Facebook is Overrated for Book Marketing

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