Your store address

Every store gets an address like your-name.lanternbee.shop. You pick the first part when you create your store. It comes free on every plan, and it is where readers find your books until you add your own domain.

Pick a good address

The first part can use lowercase letters, numbers and hyphens, like jane-doe or janedoebooks. If someone else already has the one you want, or it is a word we keep for Lanternbee, you see a message asking you to choose another.

A few tips:

• Use your pen name. You will write more books, so an address named after one book can feel out of place later.
• Keep it short. Readers may type it from the back of a paperback or hear it on a podcast.
• Skip extra hyphens. jane-doe is easy to say out loud. jane-doe-author-books isn’t.

Share it

Put your store address wherever readers already find you: the back matter of your books, your newsletter, your social media bio and your website. Every book has its own page on your store, so you can link straight to the one you are talking about.

See your address

Go to Store settings, Your domain. Your store address is at the top, as a link you can open.

Change it

Go to Store settings, General and edit Web address. Links you have already shared with the old address will stop working, so change it before you share it widely.

With your own domain

Once you connect your own domain and make it your main address, readers see that one. Your lanternbee.shop address keeps working and points to the same store, so links you shared before still open your books.

You don’t need your own domain to sell. Many authors start on their lanternbee.shop address and add a domain later, when they are ready.