When you are deciding on products to offer, the season the book is set in and/or the season the merch will be launching can both be factors in choosing products.

When it comes to using your book merch designs, you have a couple options: you can put the same design on multiple different products or you can put the design on a single product as a special offering.

While I can't tell you one printer that will work best for everyone, I can give you some things to consider when deciding where you want to host your merch shop.

While I can't tell you one platform that will work best for everyone, I can give you some things to consider when deciding where you want to host your merch shop.

Let's talk about some products that are popular merch items. There are four main product types that are great starting points for your merch store.

Let’s look at what book references makes great designs for book merch. I have broken them into three main types of designs—book quotes, character based, and location based.

Here are some great questions to pose to your readers in order to gauge their interest in merch around you and your books.

While there isn't a magic spell to guarantee sales, this is a big fear when considering offering merch. I have been there and understand. But that is where reader engagement comes in.

Print-on-Demand (POD) is the easiest option for offering merch because a POD printer takes care of the printing of the products and shipping the orders for you. That means you don't have to store any inventory or deal with shipping products yourself.

There are many great benefits that come with offering book merch for both you and your readers from expanding the world of your books to it being an additional revenue stream for you.