What Is Author Central and Why Should You Use It?

Contacts and relationships are an important part of a business – it is where the money comes from. That is why you must treat your email list in the same way. Don’t stop contact with your readers after your book launch. Make sure to engage with them if they are asking you for details. Don’t ever leave your readers’ emails unanswered. This will damage your relationship with them, and you may never get them to return.

What Is Author Central and Why Should You Use It?

You must set up an account on Author Central to help readers learn more about you as an author. Author Central is a page on Amazon that is dedicated to authors who have published books on the website. When you sign up as an author, your books, along with information about you will be on your public profile.

Readers Can Learn About You Through Author Central Author Central allows readers to learn more about you as an author. Include what you enjoy writing about, what inspired you to write, and any other relevant and interesting information about your writing. On Author Central, you will be able to manage the books that you have published and uploaded pictures of yourself, artwork, or events related to your books.

Author Central Allows You to Upload Videos In addition to that, you can also upload videos on Author Central. You could upload informative videos about your writing process and share it with others. If you have any interview videos of yourself in which you talk about your work, upload those too. If you don’t want to upload those, you can always upload inspirational videos fro m some of your favorite writers.

Include Content in All Sections of Your Profile Make sure you do not to leave any parts of your profile blank. If you don’t have much content on your profile, visitors won’t spend much time there because there’s no content for them to consume. You should make sure that visitors spend as much time as possible on your profile. This will increase the chances of them purchasing your work and remembering your name the next time it comes up. People are going to remember names that they invested their time in. If your profile doesn’t have much content, readers will visit your profile and leave in a heartbeat. Because of that, they are more likely to forget who you are and what you have written.

Author Central is an Opportunity for You to Promote Yourself Think of your Author Central profile as an opportunity to advertise yourself as an author. Try to add as many details as you can about yourself that will help you promote yourself and improve the sales of your books as a result. Author Central also allows you to include feeds to blogs in your profile. So, when you are not working on your books, write high-quality blog posts and include them in your profile. This way, visitors will get a taste of your writing without having to purchase your books. If they like your blog posts, they may also consider purchasing your books.

Hire a Ghostwriter to Write Blogs on Your Author Central Profile If you can’t find the time to write blog posts, you can hire a ghostwriter to write them for you. Make sure that you follow the same steps we provided earlier about hiring a ghostwriter. You must always try and hire some of the best writers in your budget. Test a ghostwriter out. If you are not satisfied with their work, you can edit the blog post yourself. However, make sure that you hire a good ghostwriter the next time you want a blog post written. Your blog posts must contain high-quality content and are written-well. These posts are one way that you can encourage people to purchase your books. Thus, they should read your posts and want to purchase your books. If your posts are poorly written, then visitors are less likely going to consider purchasing your book.

How to Start Using Author Central Setting up your Author Central account is fairly simple. On the Author Central page on Amazon, you will see an option that says “join now” at the top of the page. You will be asked to use your Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) account to register on Author Central. Follow the instructions and complete the process. Once you are done, you will be an active member of Author Central. In about 3 to 5 days, your Author Central page will be visible on the Amazon website. However, you are not done yet.

Click the Profile Tab to Start Adding Content Now, you’ll have to add content to your profile. Click the profile tab on the Author Central page. There you will see the option to add content in various sections, including the blogs feed, your bibliography, author photos, and videos. You can select the “edit” or “add” options beside each section to upload content in the said section. In about 24 hours, your content will be visible on your Author Central profile.

The sections will only appear on your public profile when you’ve added content in them. For example, if you haven’t uploaded any author photos, the author's photos