Linda Dunn
@dunn4authors.bsky.social
Hawaii-based author's assistant offering personalized, confidential services to streamline the author platform and strengthen the author brand.
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The Author's Website
What pages should be on your author website?
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A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
—Aldous Huxley
—Aldous Huxley
December 3, 2025 at 11:59 PM
A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
—Aldous Huxley
—Aldous Huxley
Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.
-Edna Ferber
-Edna Ferber
December 3, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.
-Edna Ferber
-Edna Ferber
December 3, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Checkup: Author Tasks
Author tasks may not be fun, however, they are crucial for keeping your author platform intact.
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Author tasks may not be fun, however, they are crucial for keeping your author platform intact.
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Author tasks may not be fun, however, they are crucial for keeping your author platform intact.
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December 3, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Checkup: Author Tasks
Author tasks may not be fun, however, they are crucial for keeping your author platform intact.
Receive your complimentary guide here:
Author tasks may not be fun, however, they are crucial for keeping your author platform intact.
Receive your complimentary guide here:
In Endless Quest books, you start the plot, and the character has to make choices. Then you have to write one choice over here, one choice over there. The author might get one or two choices out.
—Margaret Weis
—Margaret Weis
December 3, 2025 at 8:08 PM
In Endless Quest books, you start the plot, and the character has to make choices. Then you have to write one choice over here, one choice over there. The author might get one or two choices out.
—Margaret Weis
—Margaret Weis
The Author and Book Reviews
Do you have author questions about book reviews?
From how-to to how to ask for a book review, we have answers.
Check out this Pinterest board for those answers → www.pinterest.com/virtualautho...
Do you have author questions about book reviews?
From how-to to how to ask for a book review, we have answers.
Check out this Pinterest board for those answers → www.pinterest.com/virtualautho...
December 3, 2025 at 7:28 PM
The Author and Book Reviews
Do you have author questions about book reviews?
From how-to to how to ask for a book review, we have answers.
Check out this Pinterest board for those answers → www.pinterest.com/virtualautho...
Do you have author questions about book reviews?
From how-to to how to ask for a book review, we have answers.
Check out this Pinterest board for those answers → www.pinterest.com/virtualautho...
Other authors are not your competition. They are your community.
The writing community shares common objectives, interests, and goals.
Join like-genre authors in common goals.
You'll go further together.
The writing community shares common objectives, interests, and goals.
Join like-genre authors in common goals.
You'll go further together.
December 3, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Other authors are not your competition. They are your community.
The writing community shares common objectives, interests, and goals.
Join like-genre authors in common goals.
You'll go further together.
The writing community shares common objectives, interests, and goals.
Join like-genre authors in common goals.
You'll go further together.
Six essential qualities that are the key to success Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.
—Dr. William Claire Menninger
—Dr. William Claire Menninger
December 3, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Six essential qualities that are the key to success Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.
—Dr. William Claire Menninger
—Dr. William Claire Menninger
What is a social presence?
Your social presence isn't important just around launch time. Nope.
Your social presence is a marathon, not a sprint.
Show up. Be present. You have long-term goals.
Your social presence isn't important just around launch time. Nope.
Your social presence is a marathon, not a sprint.
Show up. Be present. You have long-term goals.
December 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
What is a social presence?
Your social presence isn't important just around launch time. Nope.
Your social presence is a marathon, not a sprint.
Show up. Be present. You have long-term goals.
Your social presence isn't important just around launch time. Nope.
Your social presence is a marathon, not a sprint.
Show up. Be present. You have long-term goals.
The 3 main types of distraction are visual, manual, and cognitive.
-CDC
What is distracting you, author?
Are you able to pinpoint what is causing distraction?
Once you figure it out, take action to remove or limit that distraction.
-CDC
What is distracting you, author?
Are you able to pinpoint what is causing distraction?
Once you figure it out, take action to remove or limit that distraction.
December 3, 2025 at 4:01 PM
The 3 main types of distraction are visual, manual, and cognitive.
-CDC
What is distracting you, author?
Are you able to pinpoint what is causing distraction?
Once you figure it out, take action to remove or limit that distraction.
-CDC
What is distracting you, author?
Are you able to pinpoint what is causing distraction?
Once you figure it out, take action to remove or limit that distraction.
FOURmidable: Quarterly Website Revision
Every three months you will want to go over your website and look at the nitty gritty of the layout and other details, author. Sounds horrifying, right? It doesn’t have to be!
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#AuthorWebsite
Every three months you will want to go over your website and look at the nitty gritty of the layout and other details, author. Sounds horrifying, right? It doesn’t have to be!
tinyurl.com/57f6vkae
#AuthorWebsite
December 3, 2025 at 3:51 PM
FOURmidable: Quarterly Website Revision
Every three months you will want to go over your website and look at the nitty gritty of the layout and other details, author. Sounds horrifying, right? It doesn’t have to be!
tinyurl.com/57f6vkae
#AuthorWebsite
Every three months you will want to go over your website and look at the nitty gritty of the layout and other details, author. Sounds horrifying, right? It doesn’t have to be!
tinyurl.com/57f6vkae
#AuthorWebsite
December 3, 2025 at 2:17 PM
When you feed your focus, you focus your attention on the tasks that are crucial, like book marketing.
We all know those books won't sell themselves.
Focus on how you will market your book/s, who you will market to, etc.
We all know those books won't sell themselves.
Focus on how you will market your book/s, who you will market to, etc.
December 3, 2025 at 11:00 AM
When you feed your focus, you focus your attention on the tasks that are crucial, like book marketing.
We all know those books won't sell themselves.
Focus on how you will market your book/s, who you will market to, etc.
We all know those books won't sell themselves.
Focus on how you will market your book/s, who you will market to, etc.
What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.
—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
December 3, 2025 at 12:59 AM
What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.
—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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The Da Vinci Junior High School poets have got it going on! This Thursday, December 4, 7:00 pm. Natsoulas Gallery, Davis! ❤️ #poetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #NatsoulasGallery
Friends! If you happen to be near Davis on December 4, why not drop on by the John Natsoulas Gallery at 7:00 pm & have a listen to the Da Vinci Junior High School poets read work from their latest glorious chapbook: TO THE HUMAN RACE? Hope to see you there! 521 1st St., Davis. #poetrycommunity
December 2, 2025 at 9:38 PM
The Da Vinci Junior High School poets have got it going on! This Thursday, December 4, 7:00 pm. Natsoulas Gallery, Davis! ❤️ #poetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #NatsoulasGallery
December 2, 2025 at 10:32 PM
In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.
—Antonio Porchia
—Antonio Porchia
December 2, 2025 at 8:39 PM
In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.
—Antonio Porchia
—Antonio Porchia
Your Author Platform
An author platform is specifically about your ability as a writer to market your work, using the visibility of social media, review sites, etc. to reach a target audience of potential readers.
Get your guide here:
An author platform is specifically about your ability as a writer to market your work, using the visibility of social media, review sites, etc. to reach a target audience of potential readers.
Get your guide here:
Your Author Platform
An author platform is specifically about your ability as a writer to market your work, using the visibility of social media, review sites, etc. to reach a target audience of potential readers.
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December 2, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Your Author Platform
An author platform is specifically about your ability as a writer to market your work, using the visibility of social media, review sites, etc. to reach a target audience of potential readers.
Get your guide here:
An author platform is specifically about your ability as a writer to market your work, using the visibility of social media, review sites, etc. to reach a target audience of potential readers.
Get your guide here:
I'm starting to judge success by the time I have for myself, the time I spend with family and friends. My priorities aren't amending; they're shifting.
—Brendan Fraser
—Brendan Fraser
December 2, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I'm starting to judge success by the time I have for myself, the time I spend with family and friends. My priorities aren't amending; they're shifting.
—Brendan Fraser
—Brendan Fraser
Blogging for Authors
Do you have questions about an author blog?
Check out this Pinterest board for answers → www.pinterest.com/virtualautho...
Do you have questions about an author blog?
Check out this Pinterest board for answers → www.pinterest.com/virtualautho...
December 2, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Blogging for Authors
Do you have questions about an author blog?
Check out this Pinterest board for answers → www.pinterest.com/virtualautho...
Do you have questions about an author blog?
Check out this Pinterest board for answers → www.pinterest.com/virtualautho...
Video content is 12X more successful than other types of content. In fact, it generates higher engagement rates than both text and image content combined.
-InVideo
Author, are you utilizing video?
-InVideo
Author, are you utilizing video?
December 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Video content is 12X more successful than other types of content. In fact, it generates higher engagement rates than both text and image content combined.
-InVideo
Author, are you utilizing video?
-InVideo
Author, are you utilizing video?