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Have you heard of AllAuthor?

Have you heard of AllAuthor? It’s an online platform and community that connects book authors with readers. It was established in 2016. As an author, it’s a place to list your books, enter book cover contests, and build an author profile. As a reader you can search by author name, genre, or by book with direct links to purchase books.

What is AllAuthor?

There is free level for authors. There is also an expanded level where you pay an annual fee for additional services. In either case, when you submit your books, there are several things that need to be answered including genre, questions readers might be asking about your book, and if it’s on Kindle Unlimited or not. There is even a place to to add awards. All of these answers help readers find your books.

If you have a new release, it lists it as new for a short period of time. Again a great way to give more visiblity to a new release. If you are having a sale, you can promote the limited time price as well.

There is a mobile app as well with over 80,000 downloads. I have not looked into this yet, but I’m thinking maybe I should.

Book Cover Contests

For the free level you can have one book cover be entered into one month’s book cover contest (for all time). Book cover contests are based on genre. There are several rounds and each round lasts seven days. The votes build on each round. By being a paid author on the site, I can now do additional book cover contests. I have found it’s a great way to give visibility and have something to post about and ask my readers to get involved in voting.

When you enter a contest, your Author profile will provide some automatic posts you can copy and paste into an email, Facebook, or other marketing vehicle. Right now my fourth book, A Whole New Plan, is in the contest. Here’s an example of one of the posts I can paste in.

Show me some love! Vote for my “Cover of the Month” contest entry. Help me win this thing. https://allauthor.com/cover-of-the-month/21017/

And while we are on this topic, I’d love your vote. My book cover is in the top ten and I’d love to stay there. Just click on the link and try it out.

What is the paid service?

This year I decided to try the additional service. I can feature one book with that. I chose my first book in my series, When Plans Go Awry. Every week they generate an image that gets posted on several different twitter accounts.

I also was provided an opportunity for a written interview. I recently submitted my answers and received a link to this lovely graphic and page for my interview. If you click on the image, it will take you to the interview page.

It’s nice to be able to share the promotional load with an established community. I’m not able to track how many clicks come from AllAuthor, but I’d like to believe it is helping widen my reader reach.

Denise loves to share about her writing journey (see all her posts here), including her word of the year (this year it is BALANCE), writing her Best-laid Plans Series, and all the things in between. You can visit her at her website and blog at www.denisemcolby.com or on her facebook or instagram. Please note: some links include Amazon Associate links where Denise can earn from qualifying purchases.