Got an easy-peasy-lemon-squeezy reminder for you after purchasing an author’s book and clicking on their name and not finding any information on them.

If you have not already, don’t forget to set up your Author Central Page.

Author Central is your author page on Amazon. If this is set up, readers and supporters can click on your name under your book as seen below…

And be taken to a page that looks like this….

There’s an author photo, bio, display of all the books you have on Amazon next to your photo as well as at the bottom. You can also add your blog feed to your page and videos as I did. This you will find under Author Updates.

Getting Started

First, go to https://authorcentral.amazon.com/ and sign in.

Once you’ve signed in, you should see this page.

It’s straightforward from here. Let’s get a closer look.

There, better. Under Update your Author Page, click on Amazon Author Page.

After you click on Amazon Author Page you will be taken to another page as seen below.

Click on edit biography to edit the bio and follow the instructions under Blogs to add your blog feed. Also, to your far right of this page you’ll see Author Page URL as seen below.

Use this link to share your Amazon Author page. Copy and paste the link and save it.

(If I am not mistaken I don’t think it will automatically have your name on the end of the URL so be sure to edit the link before you share it.)

This part is also where you can add photos or videos like book trailers.

Add Books

Go back to the Author Central page and click on View and Edit our List of Books.

You will be taken to this page. If you have no books added this will be empty. Click on Add More Books.

A box will come up. Search for your book on Amazon either by Title, your Author Name or ISBN and it will come up. Click add.

Once you are finished with your page, two things will change.

1. People who click on your name under your book on Amazon here…

will now be taken to your Author page here…

which will look more professional.

2. Your biography (see below) on the book page will no longer be empty. Readers can now scroll down on your book page on Amazon and see your Author Photo and your bio. They can also choose to follow you. The same author photo and bio you entered for your page is the same author photo and bio that shows up at the bottom.