My readers are in different countries
Your book card’s Buy button opens a shop in the reader’s own country, worked out in their browser. Every other shop is listed under it.
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One link that sends every reader to a bookshop near them.
Your book card shows the cover with one Buy button that opens a shop in the reader’s own country, says Preorder until the day it’s out, and lists the library too. Your readings go underneath and drop off once they’ve passed.
Your book card shows the cover with one Buy button that opens a shop in the reader’s own country, says Preorder until the day it’s out, and lists the library too.
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Agnes Caird
she/herHalifax
Crime novels set on the Halifax waterfront
Ruth Moss has three cases behind her and a fourth on the way. I write them in a shed with no heat.
The Slack Tide, out in
- Preorder at Back Pages BooksOther shops are listed below.
Out October 20
The Slack Tide
Ruth Moss, book four. A body in a lobster pot, and a harbour that won’t talk.
Launch week
Bring your old copies. I’ll sign anything but a cheque.
- Launch nightHalifax
- Reading and questionsWolfville
- In conversationToronto
- Library talkOttawa
Hear when I’m reading near you
A note when there’s a new book or I’m coming to your town. That’s all.
Ruth Moss, from the start
- The Ebb LineBook one, and where to start
- Salt in the WoundBook two
- Cold HarbourBook three, out in paperback now
Tap the address to open Agnes Caird’s page and try it.
The Buy button switches from Preorder by itself.
Your book and your readings, before launch week.
Add your book.
Its cover, its formats and every shop that sells it.
Set the release day.
It says Preorder until then, and Buy from that day on.
Add your readings.
Each one drops off your page the day after.
A launch, a series and a picture book.
We made all three up. Agnes Caird writes crime set in Halifax, Maren Tolliver writes fantasy in Thunder Bay, and Hattie Brindle writes picture books about a moose.We made all three up. Start from any of them.
Agnes Caird, an example: @agnescaird
A crime novelist counting down to her next book, with launch readings in four cities and a list that asks where you live.
Maren Tolliver, an example: @marentolliver
A fantasy series in reading order, the fourth book on preorder, and the questions every new reader asks.
Hattie Brindle, an example: @hattiebrindle
A picture book author whose page is for teachers too: school visits by city, a card for bookings and the book itself.
What a book needs from one link.
Launch day is coming
Count down to it on your page. Before the day the button says Preorder, and on the day it says Buy by itself.
I read in a few cities
List your readings with their dates and places. Your sign-up can ask which city readers are nearest, so you know who to tell.
Three moreFour moreI read in a few cities · My series has a reading order · Readers ask the same questions · I don’t want my books used to train AI
I read in a few cities
List your readings with their dates and places. Your sign-up can ask which city readers are nearest, so you know who to tell.
My series has a reading order
Lay the covers out in a row, in order, each going to its own page. Any price is words you write.
Readers ask the same questions
Answer them once: the reading order, signed copies, whether book four is coming. Every answer is real text that search engines can read.
I don’t want my books used to train AI
Your page asks AI companies not to train on it, and a do-not-mine notice says the same. Search engines aren’t asked to stay away. It’s a request, so crawlers that follow the rules stay out.
Every feature here is free, and nothing is ever sold through your page: each Buy button goes to a bookshop.
How these work, step by step: one Buy link for a book and ask AI not to train on it.
What authors ask us first.
Which shop does the Buy button open?
One in the reader’s own country, guessed in their browser from its language and time zone, never from where they are, and nothing is stored or sent. Every shop you add is listed under the button too, and a library link is offered as a way to borrow it.
Does the button change on release day?
Yes. Give the book its release day and the button says Preorder until then and Buy from that day on, without you touching it. A countdown to the day can sit above it.
Can I list a whole series in reading order?
Yes. Put your newest book on a book card and lay the rest out as a row of covers, in order, each going wherever you sell it. Nothing is sold on your page itself.
Is this for traditionally published authors too?
Yes. Link your publisher’s page, the bookshops and the library, whoever published the book. The page is yours either way, and so is the email list you build on it.
Is it really free? What’s the catch?
No catch. Every feature is free for everyone. You only pay if you want an identity or business check, Unmarked to take the Portage credit off a business page, room to look after more than ten clients’ pages from one account, or custom work from the studio. None of those adds a feature. Every free page has a small Made with Portage line at the bottom, ours included, and your page never comes down because you didn’t buy something.
Give your next book one link.
Put it in your bio, on your bookmarks and in the back of the book. The link never has to change.
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