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Your Author Brand is Also a Story You Tell

Your Author Brand is Also a Story You Tell

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Amy L Bernstein
Apr 01, 2025
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Cereal boxes displayed on a supermarket shelf.
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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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