National Authors in Grocery Stores Program

06/17/2025

DID YOU KNOW.

Based on the provided search results, here's a breakdown of how much authors might spend maintaining a website and an e-commerce website per year:
1. Maintaining a Standard Author Website:
Domain Renewal: Expect to pay between $10 and $50 per year for renewing your domain name (e.g., yourname.com).
Web Hosting: Costs for hosting can range from $3 to $30 per month, or roughly $36 to $360 per year.
Maintenance & Updates (If Outsourced): If you hire a professional for maintenance and updates, anticipate spending anywhere from $300 to $1,000 or more annually.
Optional Costs: Additional expenses might include fees for email marketing tools, premium themes or plugins, or advanced security services.
2. Maintaining an Author Website with E-commerce Functionality:
Higher Hosting Costs: E-commerce websites generally require more robust hosting plans due to increased traffic, processing payments, and managing products, potentially increasing hosting costs to $30 to $150 per month, or even higher for large sites.
E-commerce Platform Costs: If you use a dedicated e-commerce platform like Shopify, Wix, or Squarespace, you will have monthly fees, which can range from $12 to $299 or more, depending on the plan.
E-commerce Maintenance: E-commerce sites require constant attention and support, with typical maintenance costs ranging from $250 to $10,000+ per month, depending on the size and complexity of your store.
Additional Costs: E-commerce features like payment gateways, software updates, website optimization, and security measures will add to the overall expense.
Key Takeaways:
DIY vs. Professional: Building and maintaining your website yourself will generally be less expensive than hiring a professional.
Website Builders: Platforms like Wix, Squarespace, and Shopify can simplify the process, often bundling hosting and some maintenance into their monthly fees.
Complexity Matters: The more complex your website and the more features you need, the higher the maintenance costs will be.
Ongoing Investment: Regardless of whether you do it yourself or hire someone, maintaining a website, especially an e-commerce one, requires ongoing investment to ensure security, functionality, and optimal performance.
In summary, authors can expect to spend a few hundred dollars annually on a basic author website, while an e-commerce website with advanced features could potentially cost thousands of dollars per year to maintain.

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06/15/2025

Looking to Support our Authors and Never Had a chance to meet them or buy their Signed Book? No Problem, we have a place you can buy and check out their books. Check out

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06/01/2025

THE SUMMER DEAL IS HERE!! Check us out at
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06/01/2025

Check out this months Newsletter featuring author James E. Puckett. Thank you for your service James.

05/29/2025

Interested in holding your own Book Signings in the Grocery Store?

How to Sign Up and Participate:
1. Fill out the Contact Us page and submit your information.
https://authorsingrocerystores.com/contact-us
2. A packet with a registration form, W9, and handbook will be mailed to you.
3. An ISBN and barcode are required.
4. Fees: $100 to sign up, $25 per ISBN, and $75 annual renewal (Discount for 5 or
more books)
5. After receiving all fees and information, a welcome letter will be sent. The letter
will ask you to bring your book(s) to a participating store to ensure they can scan
each barcode successfully.
6. Once it is determined that your book(s) scan properly, allow 30 days for the store
to register you in their system.
7. Send a request to us via email for your desired book signing schedule, listing a
schedule of dates, grocery store numbers, and times you'd like approved.
8. Your schedule will be registered and sent to store division leaders, who will
forward it to store managers.
9. Your approved schedule will be provided 2 weeks before each signing.
10. On the day of your signings, check in at the Customer Service Desk.
11. Set up by the entrance or by the registers. Bring a 2'x4' table, a tablecloth,
books, and a sign that says "Meet the Author. Get Your Book Signed Today."
12. When a customer asks to make a purchase, sign each book, then instruct them
to pay for it (them) at the register.
13. Allow 2 weeks for payment of 62% of your sales,

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We are in Kroger, King Soopers, Fred Meyer, City Market, Frys Food & Drug and Ralphs Stores for book signings.

05/28/2025

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We are in Kroger, King Soopers, Fred Meyer, City Market, Frys Food & Drug and Ralphs Stores for book signings.

05/25/2025

Interested in joining our program? Nows your chance to save big and try out our program.
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05/24/2025

THE SUMMER DEAL IS HERE!!! Interested in Joining our program? We offer:

**Discounts on Printing
**Sales tips and Newsletters
**Access to 1400 stores in 20 states
**Contacts for Illustrations, Formatting, Editing, and Graphic Design
**350 days a year of BOOK SIGNINGS IN THE GROCERY STORE

You could spend money advertsing online, or hiring a marketer, or hoping for sales or you could take control and start selling your books.

Nows your chance to get in on a great deal. Check out our discount and then visit www.authorsingrocerystores.com or email us at [email protected]

We are in Kroger, King Soopers, Fred Meyer, City Market, Frys Food & Drug and Ralphs Stores for book signings.

05/22/2025

We say goodbye to one of our own:

William R. Whittom, 63, of Glasgow, Ky., passed away on May 13, 2025, at T.J. Samson Community Hospital.

William was a passionate writer with Whittom Publishing Company. He authored three books: Just Take a Chance on Me, the first volume in what was planned as the Wizards, Leprechauns, and Fairies series; E.I.A. – Earth Investigation Agency; and City Lights… Country Love. At the time of his passing, he was completing the final chapter of the second installment in his fantasy series. In addition to his own publications, William was a gifted ghostwriter for several well-known authors.

A proud Army National Guard veteran, William had many passions. He was an avid motorcycle rider, a devoted member of the Patriot Patrol, and a longtime member of the Barren River Rod and Gun Club. He enjoyed traveling in his RV, camping, and volunteering as a Skywarn Storm Spotter and a member of the Amateur Ham Radio Emergency Service.

William had a gift for making people feel like old friends, whether you'd known him for years or just met him. He truly treasured his time with family and friends and loved nothing more than a good conversation.

He was a loyal member of the Church of God congregation in Celina, TN and a proud graduate of Lindsey Wilson College.

In addition, William was a member of the National Authors in Grocery Stores Program and held book signings between Kentucky and Tennessee. We greatly enjoyed having him with us as well as his publishing Team Greg and Tammie. William, we will miss you.

04/27/2025

ATTENTION:

**Shopify Charges on average $400 a year for an E-Commerce Website.

**Building your own E-commerce could run several Thousand Dollars.

**Monthly web hosting fees run around $35 a month

** Authors direct folks to Amazon and BNB for purchasing their books. Why do that when you could have your Shop?

With Locally Signed, you get your own book shop that you can load your own content to and sell your books from. We handle the Sales Tax, we have already figured out the shipping and you get 75% of all of the sales. The yearly renewal is $75 a year and the initial fee for 5 books, a bio and content is $100. We even advertise the site through Google and Facebook for you at no expense to you.

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Looking for that perfect gift? At Locally Signed our books are signed by the author not a robot or stamp machine.

04/21/2025

Its finally here: Looking for your own shop and website? Looking to not spend a ton of time and money developing your own book shop? The National Authors in Grocery Stores Program has launched a solution. Check out Locally Signed today and get your books, bio and book shop open today.

Looking for that perfect gift? At Locally Signed our books are signed by the author not a robot or stamp machine.

03/04/2025

Congrats to Nikki Pezzopane in Tennessee seen here holding her 7th book signing in the grocery store. Great Job Nikki

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