Here’s May’s Monthly Sidekick Plus workshop. It’s all about Answer Engine Optimization, or how you can have readers discover your books when chatting with LLMs like ChatGPT, Claude, and more.

This one is action-packed with insights and takeaways.

* The free tool (for now) trakkr.ai can help you see what books LLMs are recommending based on prompts

* Queries to LLMs are 23 words on average v.s. 4 words for search engines

* LLMs disproportionately recommend best-selling books, even when asked to recommend lesser-known titles 😬

* Answer Engines are already a place readers discover books, and likely are going to continue to grow, but it doesn’t seem to be a great channel for new authors, but rather another channel that perpetuates big authors

* If you haven’t already, sign up for ChatGPT’s waitlist for Product Discovery so your books can have an easier time being cited in responses

You can watch the full workshop above!

I’m excited for next month’s Sidekick Plus workshop. Always super happy to take recommendations on what you would like me to deep dive into.

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Michael Evans

The Author Sidekick