by Karen Brown | Dec 30, 2024 | Goals, Mindset practices
100 Goals for 2025 It’s been a couple of years since I did a goal setting post, and in that time I’ve navigated my husband’s diagnosis and then his loss. 2024 was hard, but it’s also paved the way for a chapter, one that will be very different....
by Karen Brown | Jan 8, 2024 | Author Platform, Social media
If you’re a self-publishing author, mastering social media engagement is key to developing and nurturing your author platform. At the heart of this is delivering consistent value and keeping your followers hooked on your every post. In this post, discover 10...
by Karen Brown | Jan 1, 2024 | Author Platform, Social media
In this post about planning your social media strategy for non-fiction authors, we’ll look at how you can build your author platform using social media. As a non-fiction author, your book is the cornerstone of your expertise and a powerful tool for growing your...
by Karen Brown | Oct 2, 2023 | Formatting, Formatting images, Formatting text, Publish your book, Self-publishing
Each year, I order a planner from a specific author. It’s quirky, colourful and fun, and yet one year, I received a copy, and it was just black and white. When I contacted the author, I found out they’d had trouble uploading it onto Amazon, and so had gone...
by Karen Brown | Sep 26, 2023 | Amazon KDP, Author Platform, Launch your book, Market your book, Publish your book, Self-publishing
This was a question that came up on Quora: is it enough to have an author page on Amazon? Let’s start by clarifying what an author page is. What is an author page on Amazon? Have you ever bought a book on Amazon and noticed that the author’s name is a...
