Have you ever gotten correspondence from your readers asking for a more in-depth understanding of certain scenes in your books? – Characters? Locales? Settings?
I think we all have.
It’s the kind of immersive response from readers any author longs for. Better than any compliment, like, or shout-out on social media, being able to pull a complete stranger into your creation that until a few months ago, was literally nothing more than a figment of our imagination, is the culmination and ultimate accolade of being a successful writer – it’s what lets you know, without question, that you have a gift as a wordcrafter.
But what if you could offer much more immersive ways for readers to not just read your books, but to experience them?
By creating a website dedicated to your book, Talking Book Club.com can bring the universe of your book alive for your readers in ways that very few other authors can.
By hosting the website for you and placing it behind a paywall, you can sell that immersive experience to your readers, and continue to resell it to them again and again in perpetuity, with any updates or bonus content you add later.
This makes for an unprecedented level of immersion for readers who just can’t get enough of the universe you created, especially those who like to re-read and re-experience that universe, over and over again (like my wife).
This revenue stream can be completely separate from the price of buying your book in any format or as a bundle together with other services or formats, such as a streaming audiobook version, personalized voice-overs by you, the author, personalized messages to the reader, or even customizable merch, which can each be sold separately or grouped together at a special ‘bundle’ price. And while this format is mostly used by ebook writers, websites are also very effective and immersive for writers of bound books as well.
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