Thought this might be helpful for those of us who would like to link to Amazon's author page without having a link a mile long. If you are an author with an Author Page on Amazon, you can sign into your page and create your personal link. It's much shorter and easier to share. I've used TinyURL to shorten mine in the past, but some people are reluctant to click shortened unidentifiable links. Here's my new link:

https://www.amazon.com/author/donnashepherd

Sign into your Author Central page. Click the 'profile' tab at he top of the page. In the upper right hand corner, you'll see "Author Page URL." Here are the instructions from Amazon:

On the Author Central Profile tab, click 'add link' next to "Author Page URL."
A URL will be suggested, however you may enter text that meets the following guidelines:
At least 1 character, no more than 30 characters
May use letters, numbers, dashes, periods and underscores
No spaces
No special characters other than dashes, periods and underscores
Profanity is not allowed
If the URL you input is available, click Save.

The one that popped up for me used my name, so that was great. This is helpful if you have several books and want to link to the entire page. I have videos, Twitter posts, and links to my blogs on the page, too.

Hope that's helpful!

Donna

What a slick trick! Thanks for sharing, DonnaJ!

Thanks, Donna. I just did it, and it was easy-peasy! Amazon chose my whole name too, and the message said the link should be ready to go in about 30 minutes.
amazon.com/author/sandranachlinger

This will be very useful.

Glad it was helpful!