You should know what you're paying for and what value it adds.
Author marketing can get expensive quickly when the scope is vague.
A website can become a direct sales platform. An ARC campaign can be mistaken for simply sending a file. “Social media support” can mean anything from a few graphics to a full monthly content system.
One of the things I care about most is client education. You should understand what you’re paying for, why it matters, and where the value sits before you commit. Literary Inspired keeps the scope clear, the process transparent, and the recommendations tied to the work your books actually need.
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Debut Author Package
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Goodbye Burnout
Full Author Marketing Support
Digital Marketing Strategy
These services are for authors who want a clear plan before committing to more author marketing spend, or who need a specific strategic output to guide the next phase of their career. If you are posting, emailing, updating links, running promotions, or planning launches but still feel like the pieces are not connecting, this is usually the place to start.
This covers your brand foundation, genre and reader audience, platform priorities, and a recommended pre-launch action plan, so you can move toward publication with clearer direction instead of trying to build everything under pressure. Best for debut authors who know they need a launch foundation, but are not sure what should come first.
Delivered as a prioritized strategy document with recommended next steps, so you know what needs attention now, what can wait, and what may not be worth your time anymore. Best for authors whose marketing exists in pieces but does not feel like one connected system.
This is a working blueprint, not general advice. It is designed to help you understand what to post, why it matters, and how your social media marketing should connect to your books, newsletter, launches, and backlist. Best for authors who want to manage their own social media but need a clearer system first.
This can include how to approach a debut launch, what to fix in a stalled platform, whether your current setup makes sense, how to structure your next twelve months, or where to put your limited time and budget.
Author Design Assets
Most authors do not build their visual brand all at once. They gather assets over time: a logo, a Canva template, a bookmark, a press kit, a cover reveal graphic, an author photo, a one-pager. The pieces may be fine on their own, but together they can start to feel inconsistent. These author brand assets are designed for the indie publishing market and built around your genre, covers, reader expectations, and career stage.
Delivered in high-resolution formats for use across your website, social platforms, newsletters, and print materials.
This is the reference document your designer, social media manager, or marketing team needs to keep your visuals consistent.
Delivered in formats ready for KDP, IngramSpark, and major retail platforms.
Includes book information, author bio, and contact or ordering details.
Includes author bio, headshot placement, book details, praise copy, and contact information.
Includes questions, themes, author background, curriculum connections, classroom activities and suggested pairings.
Website Design
Your author website should help readers understand your books, join your newsletter, find your series order, follow purchase links, and contact you when needed. Literary Inspired builds author websites on Wix, Squarespace, WordPress, and Shopify, depending on your goals and technical comfort.
Includes bio, book listings, follow button integration, and connections to your other platforms.
Best for debut authors, authors preparing for a first launch, or anyone who needs a clean online home with purchase links, newsletter signup, and contact details.
Typical pages include Home, About, Books, Contact, and Newsletter, depending on your catalog and what your brand needs. Best for authors with multiple books, a growing reader list, a backlist, or a platform that needs more structure than a single page can carry..
Best for authors selling books, signed editions, merchandise, bonus content, or digital products directly to readers.
Website Support
Website Design covers the build. Website Services cover the ongoing technical support that keeps your author site live, updated, and functioning after launch.
SEO Services
SEO for authors is not about keyword stuffing or writing blog posts nobody wants to read. It is about making your site clear enough for readers and search engines to understand your books, series, genres, tropes, and reader pathways.
Includes on-page optimisation, metadata, structure, and search readability.
Best for authors using blogs, backlist pages, or series pages as part of a long-term visibility strategy.
Newsletter Services
An author newsletter should do more than sit quietly between launches. It can support reader retention, ARC recruitment, release announcements, backlist visibility, direct sales, and long-term reader connection.
Best for authors who want consistent reader communication without writing every newsletter themselves.
Includes identifying suitable swap partners, managing scheduling, and writing feature copy so you are not cold-messaging authors yourself.
Social Media Marketing
Social media marketing for authors works better when it has a job. These services are for authors who need content, structure, visibility, or community support without having to create from scratch every time.
Includes three to five weekly posts with captions and scheduling. Best for authors who want consistent platform presence without managing the weekly content cycle.
The Literary Inspired team identifies relevant genre-specific reader communities, participates where posting rules allow, and places promotional content where your readers are already gathering.
This is outbound promotion into other people’s reader communities, not management of your own group.
Includes correctly connected accounts, proper configuration, and setup support so your author platforms are ready to use.
Best for authors who need help keeping their platforms responsive without being online constantly.
Includes accepting members, posting content, handling engagement, and keeping the community active and welcoming.
Best for launches, ARC recruitment, preorder pushes, cover reveals, backlist visibility, and reader group promotion.
Evergreen Social Media Posting
Monthly social media management is for new content creation and scheduling. Evergreen Social Media Posting is for building and recycling an existing content bank after the initial setup is complete.
This system is useful for authors who want their books to stay visible between launches without ongoing caption writing or graphic creation every month.
This produces a pool of 525+ content variations that can be scheduled and recycled indefinitely.
KDP Setup and Blurb Writing
Book listing services for authors publishing on Amazon and beyond. These services cover the copywriting and metadata work that affects how your book is discovered, understood, and considered on retail platforms.
Everything you need to go live with a listing that is optimised for discoverability from day one.
Includes recommended BISAC categories, keyword strings, and Amazon browse node selections.
Includes current state assessment, research, and documented recommendations for changes.
Please note: All prices are listed in USD. Invoices are issued in advance through PayPal, and work begins once payment is received and the required project materials are supplied. Platform subscriptions, hosting, domain registration, advertising spend, BookFunnel, newsletter software, website plugins, and third-party tools are not included unless specifically stated. You can book a single service, choose a package, or request a custom combination if your project needs support across several areas. For full details on billing terms and service expectations, please review my Terms of Service.
Real Stories
Hear directly from authors who chose sustainable marketing support to protect their writing time, bring more structure to their launches, and help their books reach the right readers with clearer strategy behind them. From ARC management and book launch support to author websites, social media, and long-term author marketing systems, these are the experiences behind the work.
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