How to Start An Amazon Author Profile Page
Have your biography written.
Have a blogspot and you tube videos to share on your Amazon
Author Profile
Make sure you have an email address.
Have a jpeg picture of yourself in the correct size and format.
Go to Author Central and set up an account
There will be a prompt that asks you to add you books, it
will ask you if that is you and you will agree and then click on your book.
https://authorcentral.amazon.com
Here's how to start:
1.
Set up your Author
Central account if you haven't already done so.
2.
In Author Central,
click the Profile tab. You'll see sections for adding or changing your
biography, photos, videos, speaking or other events, and blog feeds.
3.
Click the add or edit
link next to a section.
Technical Issues for setting up the account
Setting Up
Your Author Central Account
To set up your account and
reap all the benefits associated with marketing your book through Author
Central, follow these steps:
- Go
to https://authorcentral.amazon.com/ and
click Join Now.
- Enter
your e-mail address and password and click Sign in using our
secure server.
- If
you have an Amazon.com account, sign in with the e-mail address and
password you use on that account.
- If
you do not have an existing Amazon.com account, select No, I am a
new customer. You will be prompted to enter the necessary
information.
- Read
the Author Central’s Terms and Conditions, and then click Agree to
accept them.
- Enter
the name your books are written under. A list of possible book matches
appears.
- Select
any one of your books. If your book is not in the list, you can search for
it by title or ISBN. The book you select must be available for purchase on
the Amazon.com website. Selecting the book creates the account.
- When
you receive the confirmation e-mail we send, confirm your e-mail address
and identity.
We may contact your
publishers to verify your identity, for example, by confirming your e-mail address
with them. If you've signed in with a different e-mail address than the one
your publisher is familiar with, contact them with this information so they can
quickly approve you. Other than for confirmation of your identity, your
customer information, such as product reviews or purchase history, remains
private.
While you're waiting for
approval, you still can use some of Author Central's features. For example, you
can add or edit a photo or biography. We hold your content until verification
is complete. Other updates, such as blogging and making changes to the books
listed in your bibliography, are not available until you're confirmed.
On the Contact Us form:
- Under
"Select an issue," select My Account.
- Under
"Select details," select I'm not approved yet.
- Select
how to contact us.
Author Pages are created
for each individual author listed as a contributor to a book and we aren't able
to create a shared Author Page.
If any of your books have
co-authors, both authors can join Author Central and manage an Author Page,
both claiming the book. You can use the same photo and biography for both
Author Pages, and can reference each other's Author Pages by including
information about your co-author or a URL to their Author Page in your
biography. You can also accomplish this in a blog post through your RSS feed,
allowing you to direct your readers to each other's pages for quick access.
