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Author Branding and Promotions on AllAuthor

Author branding is becoming necessary to increase the sales of the books. While many have to go to great lengths to create and maintain a website, AllAuthor helps you to create a personal brand for yourself easily. Promotion is one of the deciding factors of a book’s success and hence, we offer various means for authors to promote to the huge number of readers in AllAuthor looking for an interesting book and connect with them.

Personalized Author Website

Every author is given a personal website, which you can customize to suit your needs. There are many different themes you can adopt to make the website your own way. You will be able to choose an easy-to-share website URL so that it can even double as your portfolio!
You can include a brief introduction about your works, the genre of books you write and a biography about yourself, your journey as an author and about your books.
Your social media handles will be displayed for the readers to follow by a single click. Your books and the e-commerce websites from which it can be bought will also be listed.
On the reports page, you can access the Views and Unique clicks on the social media handles and on the retailers’ website links.
There is an option to include contact forms so that readers can leave a message to you. Also, readers can subscribe to your newsletters at the click of a button.
You can answer the questions of your readers and fans directly through the 'Ask Question' section, like their opinions and leave your comments.

Author Directory

All registered authors are listed on our author directory. The Author Directory is categorized into three sub-categories.

Best Seller: Includes bestselling authors in the Amazon Top 100 Ranks, USA Today, New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.
Genre: There are almost 50 different genres to assign your works.
Country: Authors from across the world are part of our Author Directory and the readers can choose books according to their regional preference.

Book Directory

Book directory contains all the books of the Pro-Authors. It is divided into three categories:

Kindle e-book deals: Includes Free e-books, Kindle Unlimited and 0.99 e-books. You can directly submit your e–books, if it falls under any of these categories.
Genre: A wide variety of genres are available to facilitate readers to easily choose their required options for books.
Retailers: If a reader wants to make a purchase from a certain e-commerce website, they can easily choose those books that are available on the said website by using this option. Amazon Kindle, Kobo, Barnes & Noble Nook, Apple iBooks and Google Play are the retailers available.

Apart from these categories, there is an option for Featured Book Listing, by which those books will be promoted widely in AllAuthor website and across many social media pages. The featured books will be listed at the top in any of the categories and those books will appear as suggested books at the bottom of some other pages too. Each Pro-Author gets one Featured Book Listing by default. If you wish to feature more than one book, then you will need to pay $24 for a feature book. To know more details about Featured Books, visit the page – Featured Books

On the individual Book Details page, the link to the e-commerce websites from which the book can be bought, 3D flip to display the sample chapters, if any, and Amazon reviews of the book will be displayed. Also, if you have any video for the book, we will also display it.

You can also participate in the Book Discussions present on your Book Details page, add comments, like the opinions or just read and know what the readers think about your book.

Personalized Author Interviews

"Because it’s not just about the stories you have penned, it’s about your story as well."

Readers are always curious to know a little more about the authors they admire. Hence, we give this opportunity to our Pro Authors to connect with their readers’ base through a series of interview questions that are personalized according to the authors and interesting to their readers.

Why don’t you check out a few interviews from our Pro Authors? Author Interviews

Cover of the Month Contest

The Cover of the Month contest is conducted every month in which new releases which are of 3 months or lesser can participate in the contest and the readers will vote on the best covers. At the end of the contest, Top 3 winners will win exclusive offers from AllAuthor.

On the voting page for the cover, a link to buy the book from Amazon is available, along with the social media handles of the authors, which helps the interested readers to buy the book and connect with the authors in social media too.

To know more about the contest, visit the page here – Cover of the Month

Utility Tools

Isn’t it hard to spend long hours learning and working on software and tools to help boost your book promotions? Not anymore. AllAuthor has created various utility tools to help users to avoid spending long hours on various tools.

Review GIF Maker

Reviews are the face of a book. Many check out the reviews of books before making a purchase. There are some reviews which are the 'moments of pride' for the author when one appreciates the book. Wouldn't it be wonderful to include your awesome reviews in your social media promotions? And what is the best way to showcase your reviews more than an attractive GIF! Do you want to create an amazing GIF with your best review as shown in the picture, but afraid of how tedious it will be? Can you believe that you can create such a GIF for your book under two minutes? AllAuthor lets you flaunt the best reviews in the form of GIFs in book promotions to let the world know how much others enjoyed your book and encourage many others to follow the suit.

DIY Book Teaser

"A picture is worth a thousand words."

So why not add a few to create that one teaser to grab the attention of every reader? Authors can create book teasers with the help of easy-to-use tools, a multitude of backgrounds with over 400 thousand royalty free images, custom fonts, and share options for Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Pinterest. You can add any background of your choice or use your book cover as a backdrop for your teaser. And if that's not enough, you can also copy and paste the URL of any online photo or even upload your own pictures.

To make your own Book Teaser, visit the page – Create your Book Teaser

Book Promotional Banners

Promotional Banners is our latest utility tool, which helps authors to create engaging banners for their book promotions and for sharing on social media. Creating such banners typically took a lot of time to customize and making it perfect the right way. But, with this tool, you can create banners in a matter of few seconds and use it promote your books on social media and even for offline promotions.

Promotional GIF Banners

Engaging your audience is very important during promotions as it is one of the best ways to leave a lasting impact in the minds of the audience. With the Promotional GIF Banners, you will now be able to create an attractive GIF with your selection of books and have an engaging question accompanying it, all in just 50 seconds! So no more spending a lot of time on the design and battling with the technicalities.

All you need to do is select your book and the theme that you want to use it and your GIF Banner will be created and you can use it for online promotions.

Weekly Mockup Banner

For those who have featured their books on AllAuthor, you can opt for Weekly Book Mockup Banners worth $120 for free! You will be automatically getting an attractive book mockup banner in your inbox every week without ever needing to log in to our website again once you have added all your book details.

You can use this book mockup banner for your social media promotions, email marketing, introducing a new book and also for any offline marketing.

Social Media Promotions and Automation Tools

The work of an author is never ending. Even after getting a book out, an author cannot breathe a sigh of relief as the success of the book is dependent on the promotional strategies involved. Social media plays an important role in improving the reach and engagement of your books. The time one spends on these promotional activities is vital as much as the book itself. To help you save time you spend on promoting the books, AllAuthor offers you various tools which help you fasten the process without giving the control over to someone else.

Tweet Scheduler Tool

The pressure of being active on social media and keeping the readers updated about your regular work is a gruelling task, isn't it?

To help you with that, we provide the author with a Tweet Scheduler Tool that allows the author to select or write tweets in one go and have them scheduled for publishing in the future. With this, you can schedule tweets at your own convenience, for an entire month, and they will be posted at your decided intervals. Moreover, each of your tweets will include the cover page of your book and its direct Amazon link for an added promotional benefit!

With a basic account you can send up to 100 tweets whereas, there is no such limit with Pro Membership as you can schedule unlimited number of tweets!

What are you waiting for? Get tweeting!

Piracy Monitoring

You work hard in creating your books and many unlawful websites pirates your books and gains from them without your permission. This copyright infringement is against the law. AllAuthor constantly searches these websites to see if your book is available on such websites and you will be notified about it, if there are any. You will also be guided to take steps to help you take down the book from the particular website.

To know more about it, read about our Pens Against Piracy campaign.

Tweets for Featured Books

Our ever-active promotional team is always on its heels and ready to promote your Featured Books on the most effective social media platforms. Our creative team specializes in creating custom posts for each of the social media platforms with the desired hashtags and keywords that constantly increase the chance of your promotional posts being noticed. In addition to that, all your tweets are shared by AllAuthor's twitter profile, which has a follower count of more than 50k.

Mobile-friendly Instant Facebook Articles

We create instant articles for your Profile and Featured Book page which makes the article easier to read on the Facebook mobile app as it eliminates the need to switch to a browser, load and visit the actual website.

Captivating Profile Themes

Your Pro Author profile can be turned into your very own personal website and can be personalized by using any of our four enticing templates that were specially designed to cater the needs of our authors.

We are constantly improving, optimizing and adding new features to help authors even better. Becoming a Pro-Author will help you a great deal in saving your time for promotions and concentrate on the real part of writing.

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