All About Your Author Page

Building a sense of trust and community with your readers can pay off hugely in your professional writing and in launching your career. Screen Shot 2016-07-06 at 11.25.29 AM

Use your Author Page to beef up your bio and list other published books. Add your social media accounts and promote upcoming events. Enter your Payee info securely to ensure royalty payments and tax documents are received in a timely manner. From the Dashboard, using the left sidebar navigation, select My Account to update and administer:

  1. General Account Details – Edit Account – Use this button to securely update important account details, such as:
    • Email address
    • Photo
    • Biography blurb, displayed publicly on author page
    • Mailing address
  2. Social Profiles and Author Page displays
  3. Author Events and Calendar displays
  4. Payee Information
    • Tax Information (Business or Personal)
  5. Account Security to update Password, etc.

With FastPencil, a Marketing Toolkit is automatically generated when you publish. Every published author receives:

  1. An Author Page. Beef up your bio and list other published books. Add your social media accounts and promote upcoming events.
  2. A BookBuy Page. This sales page allows readers to purchase any book format you’ve published and displays the Book Cover, Marketing Metadata, and a Preview of the Book.
  3. A BookBuy Widget. This HTML Coded Web Advertisement is meant to drive traffic back to the BookBuy Page. Display it on any web property to showcase your published work.

Book Publishing

FastPencil is a free Author Platform that enables content monetization through publishing. When you’ve finished writing and are ready to publish, choose from these flexible Publishing + Distribution Options.


Book Marketing and Brand Building

The more of a presence you can generate outside your main professional hub, the better chance you have of building a unique fanbase for your work. A well-connected, market-focused, and specific online personality is definitely going to make readers sit up and take notice, no matter the content.

For ideas on creating more content, for questions about the publishing cycle, and author tips about how to monetize, browse and subscribe to our blog for trending topics blog.fastpencil.com and visit our Knowledge Base for FAQ articles on Book Marketing + Promotion: https://kb.fastpencil.com/hc/en-us/sections/200353384-FAQs-Distribution-and-Sales-Book-Marketing-Promotion

FastPencil is Publishing Simplified.

An Author + Publisher Platform that enables content monetization through publishing.

Print-on-demand technology + a global distribution network of sales channels, FastPencil is changing how people around the world buy and sell books and eBooks.

FastPencil is Software in the Cloud – so you don’t have to download anything to your computer. It’s the fastest and easiest way to write, publish and sell books and ebooks—anywhere!

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