We Provide Virtual Assistants for Authors
We know full well all that is required to get a book on the NY Times Best Seller list. One person can not do it alone, and you shouldn’t have to. That’s why we specialize in virtual assistants for authors.
Look, writing a book isn’t like writing a book report in school. You’re not truly writing an outline and then filling in the outline with paragraphs of information. Books have a soul. They’re creative. They have story arcs and characters. A book has a voice and point-of-view. Even a book about dinosaurs of the prehistoric era contains the soul of the author.
Getting yourself into the creative space is hard enough. But with 1,326 other book related tasks haunting you . . .it’s not easy to stay there.
That’s why virtual assistants for author are critical to book success. Don’t shoulder the stress and all the tasks. Let us show you how we can help your book become a success. Our VAs can do the following for authors:
The Oh So Many Administrative Tasks:
Managing emails and responding to inquiries. At the beginning we’re mostly outbound emailing press releases, podcast pitches, publishers, book stores, and launch team members. But as the book process matures, email becomes more inbound answering questions from reporters, podcasters, readers, buyers, book stores etc. . . It’s a lot to manage as an author.
Uploading books to platforms like Amazon KDP, IngramSpark, Draft2Digital etc. There are no real reasons an authors needs to delve into all the special rules that are required in getting their books on all the platforms.
Transcribing recorded notes or interviews can help turn the hour you took to do a podcast interview into 100 different pieces of content. If virtual assistants for authors did just this, all authors would be 1000x more productive.
Tracking Book Sales, Sources and Reasons is tremendously helpful. Knowing that a particular podcast interview created 1000 books sales is important to know what to promote and how often.
The Book Launch, Marketing & Promotion of Author’s Dreams
Once the book is written, you just dream that the whole world will want to read it. You dream of so many sales you don’t know how to handle it. But the truth is the world won’t know it exists until you tell them. They’ll want it in droves, but first they have to know it has life. That’s why our virtual assistants who work for authors help so much with promotion, starting with:
Running social media accounts (posting, engagement, and scheduling content) . . . and not just your social media account. Our virtual assistants will setup accounts at a myriad of places like Bookbub, Goodreads, X, Today Parents, Instagram, BlueSky and so many others. Even if you have 1,000,000 followers to reach the world we need more.
Running the Book Launch! We’re talking about building a launch team, giving them tasks, having them write reviews, getting on podcasts, pitching media, sending out influencer copies (ARCs), doing press releases, scheduling book signings and book tours, repurposing content . . . and then getting the launch team people to like, share and comment on all those things. Authors need help!
Designing promotional materials (graphics, banners, etc.) Not to leave out audiograms, shorts, reels, and physical mailings
Reaching out to book bloggers, reviewers, and influencers . . . outside of the launch team itself there are places like Goodreads, Bookbub, BookTok’ers, and Kirkus that do reviews and help get the word out. But they all need managed.
Setting up and managing book giveaways or contests - Goodreads has a wonderful giveaway for instance.
Managing Private Reader Groups and Book Clubs - There are lots of Facebook groups and small book club websites that can be found and pitched. These groups often publicly talk about the books they read and loved and can be a catalyst to sales.
SEO SEO SEO . . . There is nothing better than someone searching for Farming Book, and then finding and buy your farming book! Virtual assistants help authors do keyword research, write description, write blog post, choose Amazon categories and everything else so buyers searching will find your book.
Writing and Publishing Assistance
With or without a publisher, the work of virtual assistants for authors in this space is invaluable.
Organizing files, research, and notes. Even a fiction fantasy novel requires research and files. Not only that but hybrid, vanity and traditional publishers all need to see citations, where information was derived and facts backed up.
Formatting manuscripts, documents and graphics can be the most frustrating thing. There is no faster way to kill the creativity buzz than to try and turn a Word doc into a .epub file, turn it into a graphic or submit it to a magazine’s requirements.
Editing, ghostwriting and proofreading manuscripts or blog posts
Researching topics for books, blog posts, or articles
If this sounds like the kind of book production you’d like to have, then we’d love for you to learn more about us to see if we’re the perfect fit for you. We’d love to connect you with our virtual assistants who work with authors.
