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Literary Inspired partners with authors on strategy-led marketing.

Drowning in Marketing
To-Dos You Never Signed Up For?

You do not need to arrive with a perfect brief, a polished plan, or the right words for what is not working yet. Tell me what feels messy: the book launch, the ARC campaign, the author website, the newsletter, the social media, the Amazon listing, or the wider author marketing system you are tired of carrying alone.

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I spent the last week on 14 strategy calls with au

I spent the last week on 14 strategy calls with authors, and the same pattern kept showing up:
Most authors are not lazy.
They are not “bad at marketing.”
They are not missing the secret hack everyone else has apparently been sent by owl.
They are usually making one small decision that quietly blocks the next one.
Swipe through before you plan your next launch, promo push, or “why is nothing working?” spiral.

You can do everything “right” and release day can

You can do everything “right” and release day can still end up looking nothing like you had pictured.

Release day matters. But it is not the whole story.

Years later, the door can open through:
📚 A new community or trends 🎬 An adaptation 🧵 Fan theories 📖 A growing backlist 💬 One person who will not stop talking about it

Which book did you only discover years after it was published?

I blinked and somehow landed up with 47 Canva tabs

I blinked and somehow landed up with 47 Canva tabs open, three half-drunk coffees, and a to-do list that had quietly started multiplying behind my back.

Last week was jam-packed with new releases to support, upcoming launches to prep, Facebook ad strategies to map out, seamless carousels to build, reels to create, bookmark designs to finish, and somewhere in the middle of all of it all, my kids’ final projects for the term had to be remembered, supervised, glued, printed, packed, and sent in on time.

So, a fairly normal week, really.

Despite what Instagram might have you believe, it’s not just polished launch graphics or tidy strategy docs. It is creative work sitting right next to the admin work sitting right next to real life.

A gentle housekeeping reminder: Go check your KDP

A gentle housekeeping reminder: Go check your KDP keywords and categories. 📚

Because:

🔍 Reader search habits change
💬 The language readers use changes
📌 New Amazon categories get added
🫠 Release-week metadata choices can get very stale

The setup that worked when your book launched might not be the strongest fit now.

A little digital housekeeping goes a long way.

When was the last time you checked yours? 👀

“Just send the review copy anyway. Amazon won’t kn

“Just send the review copy anyway. Amazon won’t know.”

Respectfully, absolutely not. 😂

KU’s exclusivity terms are pretty clear:

📚 If your ebook is enrolled in Kindle Unlimited, it can’t be distributed elsewhere.

Which creates a bit of a headache when:

✍️ Book 3 is almost here
📖 Readers need Books 1 and 2 first
⭐ You need ARC readers ready to go

Fortunately, there is a way to handle this that doesn’t involve breaking the rules or hoping Jeff Bezos isn’t paying attention.

It’s been a while, so let me reintroduce myself.

It’s been a while, so let me reintroduce myself.

I’m Meg, a chronically online strategist, book marketer, fantasy reader and professional tab-hoarder.

Get to know me:

🎧 My on-repeat listen is Noah Kahan’s The Great Divide, because apparently I enjoy being emotionally wrecked.

📚 My favourite genre to read is fantasy, and my favourite book of all time is The Song of Achilles, which I will never recover from.

📺 Current watch rotation: The Pitt, The Bear, Rooster, Off Campus, and Paradise.

🛋️ My comfort show is always New Girl. There are very few problems Nick and Schmidt cannot temporarily distract me from.

🐾 I love animals in a way that means I will stop the car to pet your dog or squeal in delight at the sight of a fur baby. I have 5 dogs, 2 cats, birds, a hamster, and fish.

🇿🇦 I live in South Africa, but I have worked with US-based companies since I left school because the time difference let me build a career while still being present at home.

💍 I met my husband in my last year of high school. Our first date was terrible. We got married a year later. We have been together for 14 years, and our love story is a trope tree you would absolutely go feral for.

⚡ Random fact no one ever believes: I was struck by lightning while dancing to Boom, Boom, Boom by the Vengaboys. I wish I had made that up. I did not.

I left corporate because I was tired of being too emotional, too creative, too passionate, too much.

So I focused on building Literary Inspired, where caring too much is absolutely the standard I hold myself to.

Your turn. Tell me one random fact about you that sounds fake but is true.

Now that I am back at my desk full-time after surg

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From book launches and backlist promotion to ARC management, KDP setup, author websites, social media marketing, and newsletter support, I bring the strategy, structure, and follow-through authors need to make their marketing easier to manage.

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