Comments on: How to Create a Professional Author Page in Amazon Author Central

By: Jeanne Felfe

Jeanne Felfe — Sat, 22 May 2021 21:52:57 +0000

Dave, excellent article as usual. I’m looking for a solution for some of the members of my writers’ guild. They haven’t published books of their own, but are in many of the multi-author anthologies we publish. We tried to walk through setting up a page for one of them and discovered there doesn’t seem to be a way to do this since they can’t “claim” the book.

Since I already have an author page, I can’t play around with it to try and discover if there’s a hidden “contact” door. Any ideas on this one? Or where I can find that hidden door?

By: Amis Lore

Amis Lore — Sat, 08 May 2021 03:29:23 +0000

In reply to John Garrett. This is my question exactly after trying for hours to figure this out! The sites won't let me use amazon as part of the rebranding.

By: Dave Chesson

Dave Chesson — Tue, 04 May 2021 20:57:24 +0000

In reply to Nancy Murphey. That's because once you've created an Amazon Author page, you need to claim your books.

By: Nancy Murphey

Nancy Murphey — Mon, 03 May 2021 19:40:46 +0000

I have completed the Amazon Author page…. but when I go to Amazon and search for my book, the “author” is not hyperlinked… therefore no one can see my Author page.
I have reread your instruction but I think I have missed something

“f you aren’t familiar with Author Pages, go to Amazon now and type in a random book title. When you look at a book on Amazon, the author’s name is below the title. If it has a hyperlink (a link you can click on), you can click to see that author’s Amazon Page.”

By: John Garrett

John Garrett — Fri, 16 Apr 2021 22:19:59 +0000

When you’re talking about branding links, do those services somehow let you rebrand an actual Amazon link?

Can they somehow let me use ‘amazon.com/author/joeshmoe’ to get to ‘amazon.com/author/e/~/0U812’?

You’d have to have your own ‘joeshmoe’ domain, and then use ‘amazon.com/author/e/~/0U812’ as the source url, and make something short like ‘joeshmoe.com/author’ as the new link, right?

By: Dave Chesson

Dave Chesson — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 10:22:45 +0000

In reply to Fiona Ross. Awesome and looking good!

By: Dave Chesson

Dave Chesson — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 10:22:34 +0000

In reply to Jackie Webb.

If someone left a review publicly somewhere, I don’t see why you can’t use that review here. However, it’s probably best to still get their permission if you can – just in case.

By: Jackie Webb

Jackie Webb — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 08:49:19 +0000

Do you have to ask permission of people who have left good reviews first or is it okay to add them to editorial review page?

By: Fiona Ross

Fiona Ross — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 00:02:50 +0000

Fantastic comprehensive article, thank you so much. Here’s my Author Page. I still have a lot of work to do. https://www.amazon.com/Fiona-Faith-Ross/e/B00CQHHHE2

By: Dave Chesson

Dave Chesson — Mon, 05 Apr 2021 18:27:35 +0000

In reply to Nancy Everitt. Sadly, no.

By: Nancy Everitt

Nancy Everitt — Sat, 03 Apr 2021 16:37:35 +0000

Val, is there a way to search demographics or to see who follows you on Author Central?

By: Dave Chesson

Dave Chesson — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 23:08:45 +0000

In reply to Alice. Awe, thank you!