I’ve also had poets use this space for a sneak peek at their strongest poems. For example, Shari Bower, the author of Before They Executed Him: A Wife’s Story of Death Row, uses the back cover content to show off a Washington Post quote from a reporter. Your back cover content might not be the blurb itself. Use this space for a quick interview, a brief excerpt, or any best-seller stats.ĭid you print a hardcover with a dust jacket? Then that content can go here. Got endorsements or brilliant reviews? Add them here! If you want to add more content to your Amazon page, then you can do so by clicking Books, choosing the book you want to work with, and clicking Edit Details on any of the following: I love these features so much as a reader and as an author. It’s time to sign in to Amazon Author Central once more. Add Editorial Reviews or From the Author content. Or better: “help with childhood trauma.” 4. For example, if your book’s title or subtitle uses the word “abuse” in it, then don’t use that keyword in your list of 7 keywords for Amazon KDP. Pro Tip: When choosing keywords, don’t duplicate anything. Would you rather compete with 20,000 books or a little under 1,000? For example, rather than the keyword “memoir writing,” I would recommend “how to write a memoir.” I’ve seen more success with nonfiction keywords being used like a Google search term. But sometimes my nonfiction authors get stuck. Customers can search for any of those words and find your bookĪnd more! Read them all here: Make Your Book More Discoverable with Keywords.Ĭoming up with keywords for novels, it seems, is a cinch. For better results, enter this: complex suspenseful whodunit. If you enter “complex suspenseful whodunit,” only people who type all of those words will find your book. Single words work better than phrases, and specific words work better than general ones. Information covered elsewhere in your book’s metadata (title, contributors, etc.) Amazon KDP provides a list of keywords to avoid, such as: In Amazon KDP, you are allowed seven keywords. Use phrases such as “how to cook vegan food” or “how to help an alcoholic” for nonfiction keywords. Pro Tip #2: Learn how to write blurbs for novels here: Writing Compelling Book Blurbs. Pro Tip #1: I always use this free tool to convert my text to HTML and then paste it into the Edit HTML block next to Compose: Seller App Amazon Product Description Editor. Use hard returns (shift + return) to add paragraph spaces. Use the bold, italics, bullet, and/or numbering tools.Ĭlick Preview to make sure it looks good. Since this article isn’t meant to teach you how to write a compelling blurb, what I mean in this case is that it should really pop! You can use bold, italics, bullets, and numbered lists to make your blurb stand out on Amazon. Kindle has its own categories, and so does paperback (known as Books on Amazon). Important Note: You will have to do the 8 categories all over again for paperback. Kindle Store/Categories/Kindle eBooks/Literature & Fiction/Genre Fiction/Westerns/Frontier & Pioneer Kindle Store/Categories/Kindle eBooks/Literature & Fiction > Genre Fiction > Family Life Kindle Store/Categories/Kindle eBooks/Literature & Fiction/Genre Fiction/Coming of Age Kindle Store/Categories/Kindle eBooks/Literature & Fiction/Genre Fiction/Friendship Kindle Store/Categories/Kindle eBooks/Literature & Fiction/Action & Adventure/Sea Adventures Kindle Store/Categories/Kindle eBooks/Literature & Fiction/Historical Fiction/Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Kindle Store/Categories/Kindle eBooks/Literature & Fiction/Historical Fiction/United States Kindle Store/Categories/Kindle eBooks/History/Americas/United States/19th Century Kindle Store/Categories/Kindle eBooks/Literature & Fiction/Action & Adventure/Men's Adventure Kindle Store/Categories/Kindle eBooks/Literature & Fiction/ > Genre Fiction > Disaster Here’s what a list of 10 browse categories looks like for my historical fiction author, S. Pro Tip: I recommend keeping a running list of these categories in a Google Doc so you don’t forget.
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