Doubt Monster

Doubt Monster

Your Author Brand is Also a Story You Tell

Show the world who you are as a writer

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Amy L Bernstein
Apr 01, 2025
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Did Henry James have an author brand? Or Jane Austen? What about Shakespeare?

When we think of “author” and “branding” together, the fit doesn’t quite feel natural. If we readily assign a brand to great authors of the past, that’s probably because we’ve had so much time to develop mythologies and tropes and larger-than-li…

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