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Publishing an audiobook used to mean navigating distributors, contracts, and a fair amount of industry jargon before your book ever reached listeners. Spotify for Authors gives self-published au...
If you have multiple audiobooks in a series on Spotify, you want listeners to know exactly what comes next. The good news is that linking a series on Spotify is relatively simple. You don't manu...
Listen & Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube About the Episode: This episode is a milestone; the Written Word Media Podcast just hit 10,000 downloads. To celebrate, Ric...
If you’ve spent any time researching author marketing, you’ve probably encountered the terms reader magnet and lead magnet. Sometimes they’re used interchangeably. But there’s a useful distinction ...
Direct sales are giving self-published authors more ways to build sustainable author businesses. When readers buy through your own store, you can have more control over the customer experience, ...
Every author knows they should be building an email list. It's the one audience no algorithm can take away from you. Platforms change their rules. Ad accounts get shut down. Reach comes and goes...
A+ Content lets you add rich graphics, formatted text, and comparison tables to your book's Amazon product page, going well beyond the standard description box. It's free for all KDP authors, and i...
Publishing your book is just the beginning. The real opportunity comes from reaching readers wherever and however they prefer to read. Many indie authors focus almost exclusively on eBooks. That...
Already have a pen name but wondering if it's still the right fit? Whether your career has evolved, your readership has changed, or life simply looks different than it did when you published your f...
Every social media platform seems to promise the same thing: more visibility, more readers, and more book sales. One expert tells you to master TikTok. Another swears by Instagram. Meanwhile, someo...
