When I was first asked to speak at the California Writer’s Club/Sacramento April’s breakfast meeting about how I’d built my website and decided on my platform and marketing strategy, my first thought was: Hold it! You’re talking to a technological greenhorn here—miss trial and error, miss whoops that didn’t work out too well, miss if you don’t at first […]
Building an Author Website
An Unpublished Author’s Website
Why do people visit an author’s website? Well, that’s a no-brainer. To read about the author’s published books, of course. And if the visitors are fans or from the media, they’ll also be interested in the author’s bio, her media information, and ways to contact her. So where does that leave an unpublished author like me? I mean, why should I even bother putting up a website and then […]
Why Writers Need Their Own Author Website
Many book authors decide that they do not need their own book author websites. These authors feel that they can get enough exposure by listing their book on the various online book sites.Yet, if you are truly interested in giving your book the best online marketing opportunities, you need to have your own author website. […]
14 Invaluable Sites for Improving your Blog
Does your blog content provide a valuable service? If you’re a serious blogger, you should be asking yourself this question on a regular basis. Because if the answer is no, why on earth would anyone want to visit or follow your blog? In her newsletter I Love Great Curators. Are You One?, Jane Friedman says, “Curation is one of the most valuable services you […]
Setting Up A Blog, Part I
Why didn’t anyone ever tell me that setting up a blog was easy? Until I read Blogging for Dummies, I thought I needed to consult an expert to get me started or, at the very least, master complicated technological skills that I didn’t have the patience or inclination to learn. Guess it was a case of, “You never asked.” If the […]
