Linda Dunn
@dunn4authors.bsky.social
Streamlining the author platform and strengthening the author brand.
www.virtualauthorsassistant.com
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Media Page for Authors
A media page is separate from the ‘about’ page on your author website.
This page should offer key information to the media, podcasters, bloggers, book clubs, organizations, potential readers, and more.
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Authors and a Media Page
Do you need one?
Why?
• How could it benefit you?
• How could it be used?
• Where do you place it?
Get your complimentary Media Page Guide here:
Do you need one?
Why?
• How could it benefit you?
• How could it be used?
• Where do you place it?
Get your complimentary Media Page Guide here:
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Thrilled to share the beautiful cover of my debut novel, IN THE DESERT, on sale 3-3-2026 from @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social
Many thanks to the brilliant photographer, Keith Bernstein for use of the stunning cover image and to Ashling Dennehy for the design.
I'm so excited!
Many thanks to the brilliant photographer, Keith Bernstein for use of the stunning cover image and to Ashling Dennehy for the design.
I'm so excited!
October 22, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Thrilled to share the beautiful cover of my debut novel, IN THE DESERT, on sale 3-3-2026 from @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social
Many thanks to the brilliant photographer, Keith Bernstein for use of the stunning cover image and to Ashling Dennehy for the design.
I'm so excited!
Many thanks to the brilliant photographer, Keith Bernstein for use of the stunning cover image and to Ashling Dennehy for the design.
I'm so excited!
Reposted by Linda Dunn
Dream big. Write bold. Finish strong. Packed with expert strategies and practical templates, this guide takes you from first idea to finished masterpiece. Every great novel starts with a plan — here’s yours. www.amazon.com/dp/B0D9BTW2FQ .
January 25, 2026 at 9:33 PM
Dream big. Write bold. Finish strong. Packed with expert strategies and practical templates, this guide takes you from first idea to finished masterpiece. Every great novel starts with a plan — here’s yours. www.amazon.com/dp/B0D9BTW2FQ .
How can you, author, maximize the return on your newsletter?
How can you maximize the return on your newsletter?
author newsletter, what purpose does an author newsletter serve, why create an author newsletter
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January 25, 2026 at 7:01 PM
How can you, author, maximize the return on your newsletter?
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Authors, do some areas of your writing seem long-winded or sluggish? Maybe redundancies in dialogue tags are to blame.
kathysteinemann.com/Musings/redu...
#Words #WritingTips #WritingCommunity #WritingLife #KathySWriter
kathysteinemann.com/Musings/redu...
#Words #WritingTips #WritingCommunity #WritingLife #KathySWriter
How Unnecessary Dialogue Tags Can Create Redundancies
You might not realize why a certain passage in your writing doesn’t read quite exactly the way you intend it to read. Your brilliantly crafted, eloquent words are there, but the writing seems to dr…
kathysteinemann.com
January 21, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Authors, do some areas of your writing seem long-winded or sluggish? Maybe redundancies in dialogue tags are to blame.
kathysteinemann.com/Musings/redu...
#Words #WritingTips #WritingCommunity #WritingLife #KathySWriter
kathysteinemann.com/Musings/redu...
#Words #WritingTips #WritingCommunity #WritingLife #KathySWriter
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#Book & #movie. Available in many countries @ numerous booksellers & on #TV channels & #film streaming services. #lesbian #romcom #family #sapphic #India #film #novel #Screenplay by Gabriel Constans.
Book: tinyurl.com/2c4nkm8n
Film Trailer: tinyurl.com/3urnkz6w
💃🏽 Shandra, "I LOVED BOTH!"
Book: tinyurl.com/2c4nkm8n
Film Trailer: tinyurl.com/3urnkz6w
💃🏽 Shandra, "I LOVED BOTH!"
January 25, 2026 at 6:32 PM
#Book & #movie. Available in many countries @ numerous booksellers & on #TV channels & #film streaming services. #lesbian #romcom #family #sapphic #India #film #novel #Screenplay by Gabriel Constans.
Book: tinyurl.com/2c4nkm8n
Film Trailer: tinyurl.com/3urnkz6w
💃🏽 Shandra, "I LOVED BOTH!"
Book: tinyurl.com/2c4nkm8n
Film Trailer: tinyurl.com/3urnkz6w
💃🏽 Shandra, "I LOVED BOTH!"
eBooks can include links to direct your reader to a specific place.
Do you want to send them to leave a review on Amazon or Goodreads? Include that link on the last page.
Link to your blog and invite the reader to join your newsletter.
Do you want to send them to leave a review on Amazon or Goodreads? Include that link on the last page.
Link to your blog and invite the reader to join your newsletter.
January 25, 2026 at 5:50 PM
eBooks can include links to direct your reader to a specific place.
Do you want to send them to leave a review on Amazon or Goodreads? Include that link on the last page.
Link to your blog and invite the reader to join your newsletter.
Do you want to send them to leave a review on Amazon or Goodreads? Include that link on the last page.
Link to your blog and invite the reader to join your newsletter.
Strategic building of your author platform & brand will help readers find you, your book, your content, etc.
Non-fiction authors will show up in a browser search of topic info.
Fiction authors may show up in a genre or topic search. Building your brand to a niche audience is your goal.
Non-fiction authors will show up in a browser search of topic info.
Fiction authors may show up in a genre or topic search. Building your brand to a niche audience is your goal.
January 25, 2026 at 5:39 PM
Strategic building of your author platform & brand will help readers find you, your book, your content, etc.
Non-fiction authors will show up in a browser search of topic info.
Fiction authors may show up in a genre or topic search. Building your brand to a niche audience is your goal.
Non-fiction authors will show up in a browser search of topic info.
Fiction authors may show up in a genre or topic search. Building your brand to a niche audience is your goal.
Author Collaboration
According to Indeed, collaboration is “working together with one or more people (authors) to complete a project or task or develop ideas or processes.”
Never underestimate the power of bringing a group of authors together to come up with ideas on how to jointly promote books.
According to Indeed, collaboration is “working together with one or more people (authors) to complete a project or task or develop ideas or processes.”
Never underestimate the power of bringing a group of authors together to come up with ideas on how to jointly promote books.
January 25, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Author Collaboration
According to Indeed, collaboration is “working together with one or more people (authors) to complete a project or task or develop ideas or processes.”
Never underestimate the power of bringing a group of authors together to come up with ideas on how to jointly promote books.
According to Indeed, collaboration is “working together with one or more people (authors) to complete a project or task or develop ideas or processes.”
Never underestimate the power of bringing a group of authors together to come up with ideas on how to jointly promote books.
I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.
—Anne Baxter
—Anne Baxter
January 25, 2026 at 3:57 PM
I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.
—Anne Baxter
—Anne Baxter
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
—Samuel Butler
—Samuel Butler
January 25, 2026 at 2:19 PM
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
—Samuel Butler
—Samuel Butler
Author Collaboration
Some applicable examples of collaboration in the workplace include brainstorming, group discussions, reaching a consensus about processes or analyzing problems, and finding solutions.
-Nut Cache
Think about how you could apply this with 5 like-genre authors.
Some applicable examples of collaboration in the workplace include brainstorming, group discussions, reaching a consensus about processes or analyzing problems, and finding solutions.
-Nut Cache
Think about how you could apply this with 5 like-genre authors.
January 25, 2026 at 11:03 AM
Author Collaboration
Some applicable examples of collaboration in the workplace include brainstorming, group discussions, reaching a consensus about processes or analyzing problems, and finding solutions.
-Nut Cache
Think about how you could apply this with 5 like-genre authors.
Some applicable examples of collaboration in the workplace include brainstorming, group discussions, reaching a consensus about processes or analyzing problems, and finding solutions.
-Nut Cache
Think about how you could apply this with 5 like-genre authors.
But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.
—Lascelles Abercrombie
—Lascelles Abercrombie
January 25, 2026 at 12:39 AM
But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.
—Lascelles Abercrombie
—Lascelles Abercrombie
Do you freeze when someone asks you to tell them about your book?
January 24, 2026 at 10:43 PM
Do you freeze when someone asks you to tell them about your book?
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FASCINATING, UPROARIOUS, AND LEGENDARY BOOKS. STORIES FOR EVERYONE! Visit my website www.marthaperez.info AND AUTHOR PAGE. #Romance #bookworm #darkshortstories #ebook #motivational #hardcover #paperback #bookaddict #heartfelt #thrillersuspense "CHECK OUT MY CAPTIVATING BOOKS"
June 26, 2025 at 8:37 PM
FASCINATING, UPROARIOUS, AND LEGENDARY BOOKS. STORIES FOR EVERYONE! Visit my website www.marthaperez.info AND AUTHOR PAGE. #Romance #bookworm #darkshortstories #ebook #motivational #hardcover #paperback #bookaddict #heartfelt #thrillersuspense "CHECK OUT MY CAPTIVATING BOOKS"
When the dream came into being, I always pursued it.
—Marguerite Young
—Marguerite Young
January 24, 2026 at 8:21 PM
When the dream came into being, I always pursued it.
—Marguerite Young
—Marguerite Young
Everybody Clean Up: Weekly Website Scour
Let’s add another few things to your never-ending to-do list, author. Here are a few things you can (and should) do every week to maintain your website health.
Read more: tinyurl.com/cyv83dkm
Let’s add another few things to your never-ending to-do list, author. Here are a few things you can (and should) do every week to maintain your website health.
Read more: tinyurl.com/cyv83dkm
January 24, 2026 at 6:46 PM
Everybody Clean Up: Weekly Website Scour
Let’s add another few things to your never-ending to-do list, author. Here are a few things you can (and should) do every week to maintain your website health.
Read more: tinyurl.com/cyv83dkm
Let’s add another few things to your never-ending to-do list, author. Here are a few things you can (and should) do every week to maintain your website health.
Read more: tinyurl.com/cyv83dkm
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The Independent Press Awards chose THE MONSTERS AMONG US as a Distinguished Favorite in Horror!
Less than 5 months since publication, and this is the 2nd award the book won! I am honored and brimming with joy for this story, so personal and dear to me, to gain this recognition.
Less than 5 months since publication, and this is the 2nd award the book won! I am honored and brimming with joy for this story, so personal and dear to me, to gain this recognition.
January 22, 2026 at 2:09 PM
The Independent Press Awards chose THE MONSTERS AMONG US as a Distinguished Favorite in Horror!
Less than 5 months since publication, and this is the 2nd award the book won! I am honored and brimming with joy for this story, so personal and dear to me, to gain this recognition.
Less than 5 months since publication, and this is the 2nd award the book won! I am honored and brimming with joy for this story, so personal and dear to me, to gain this recognition.
“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
Go throw your TV set away,
And in its place you can install
A lovely bookshelf on the wall.
Then fill the shelves with lots of books.”
- Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Go throw your TV set away,
And in its place you can install
A lovely bookshelf on the wall.
Then fill the shelves with lots of books.”
- Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
January 24, 2026 at 6:29 PM
“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
Go throw your TV set away,
And in its place you can install
A lovely bookshelf on the wall.
Then fill the shelves with lots of books.”
- Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Go throw your TV set away,
And in its place you can install
A lovely bookshelf on the wall.
Then fill the shelves with lots of books.”
- Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Author, are you making the most of your email signature?
Hyperlink your website and your book.
You may want to add your logo.
Don't miss the opportunity to advertise and redirect.
Hyperlink your website and your book.
You may want to add your logo.
Don't miss the opportunity to advertise and redirect.
January 24, 2026 at 6:27 PM
Author, are you making the most of your email signature?
Hyperlink your website and your book.
You may want to add your logo.
Don't miss the opportunity to advertise and redirect.
Hyperlink your website and your book.
You may want to add your logo.
Don't miss the opportunity to advertise and redirect.
Where are your readers?
Your readers may be local. They may be international.
It's up to you to reach them. It's up to you to get your social content into their feed. It's up to you to entice them to your website. It's up to you to build a relationship with these potential readers.
Your readers may be local. They may be international.
It's up to you to reach them. It's up to you to get your social content into their feed. It's up to you to entice them to your website. It's up to you to build a relationship with these potential readers.
January 24, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Where are your readers?
Your readers may be local. They may be international.
It's up to you to reach them. It's up to you to get your social content into their feed. It's up to you to entice them to your website. It's up to you to build a relationship with these potential readers.
Your readers may be local. They may be international.
It's up to you to reach them. It's up to you to get your social content into their feed. It's up to you to entice them to your website. It's up to you to build a relationship with these potential readers.
Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.
—Franz Liszt
—Franz Liszt
January 24, 2026 at 4:06 PM
Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.
—Franz Liszt
—Franz Liszt
Author Collaboration
What could you collaborate on with other authors?
How about newsletter swaps, guest blogging, cross-promotion, book releases, live presentations, etc.?
The list is endless.
What could you collaborate on with other authors?
How about newsletter swaps, guest blogging, cross-promotion, book releases, live presentations, etc.?
The list is endless.
January 24, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Author Collaboration
What could you collaborate on with other authors?
How about newsletter swaps, guest blogging, cross-promotion, book releases, live presentations, etc.?
The list is endless.
What could you collaborate on with other authors?
How about newsletter swaps, guest blogging, cross-promotion, book releases, live presentations, etc.?
The list is endless.
Author Collaboration
Collaboration can take you places. Like-genre author collaboration can take you much farther than you can imagine.
Think about this: you share the same reader demographic.
Partner up, author. Create something to collaborate on and invite your author peers to join you.
Collaboration can take you places. Like-genre author collaboration can take you much farther than you can imagine.
Think about this: you share the same reader demographic.
Partner up, author. Create something to collaborate on and invite your author peers to join you.
January 24, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Author Collaboration
Collaboration can take you places. Like-genre author collaboration can take you much farther than you can imagine.
Think about this: you share the same reader demographic.
Partner up, author. Create something to collaborate on and invite your author peers to join you.
Collaboration can take you places. Like-genre author collaboration can take you much farther than you can imagine.
Think about this: you share the same reader demographic.
Partner up, author. Create something to collaborate on and invite your author peers to join you.