What can an Author’s Assistants do for the writer and author? Here are 24 critical tasks an Author’s Assistant can do to help every writer and author:

• Inventory and organize the author’s source documents
  

• Do target reader research
  

• Fact check and research for the book
  

• Obtain permissions to use quotes and interviews
  

• Coordinate the peer and audience reviews/testimonials
  

• Research potential publishers
  

• Do a competitive analysis
  

• Prepare the manuscript to submit to a publisher
  

• Coordinate the self-publishing process
  

• Get the ISBN (International Standard Book Number)
  

• Get the library cataloguing information (the LCCN in the US, the CIP elsewhere)
  

• Get the bar code for the back cover
  

• Create an account with the printer
  

• Review the printer’s proof
  

• Get the book listed in Bowker’s Books in Print
  

• Get the copyright registered
  

• Coordinate promotional activities
  

• Send out copies for early review
  

• Get book listed on Amazon
  

• Help create and maintain the author’s web site and media kit
  

• Enter a book in book awards competitions
  

• Create a virtual book launch and book tour
  

• Organize a live book event
  

• Launch an Amazon bestseller campaign

2009 Jan B. King, Founder, The Publishing Store

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