I've started a new author website. It has taken me a couple of weeks to get it up and running due to some problems with the domain name and hosting site. Okay, it was mostly user error, but that's what I get for doing it all myself.
It's a simple website. Nothing fancy. It's just a spot for people to find me and my books. I was using this blog, but I thought an actual website would be better.
The website is just in its infancy. I plan on adding on later.
One piece of advice for you DIYers. Never go look at a multimillion dollar author's webpage for inspiration. It'll only serve to depress you . . . unless you're a pretty good web designer, which I am not. Once I'm pulling down seven figures on a regular basis I'll fork over the cash for a highfalutin website.
Until then, this website will have to do.
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Thursday, October 11, 2012
Saturday, September 29, 2012
Changes On The Way
Forgive me Blogger, for I have sinned. It has been twenty days since my last post.
I am going to be making some changes to this blog and other aspects of my writing life. One of the reasons I've had so much trouble with this blog is that I find it hard to come up with topics to blog about. I started it as a way to chronicle my writing life in hopes of attracting an agent. But, I only have so much writing advice to give.
Besides, my goals have changed.
I'm no longer interested in attracting an agent. It's readers that I'm concerned with.
Your average reader isn't concerned with the Indie v Trad wars, or story structure, or any of the other countless topics that interest writers. But, I do think readers like to get to know writers on a personal level.
So, my plan is to lay back on posting about writing or my books, and to just blog about my life and the things that interest me. Hopefully readers of this blog will like me as a person and that will drive them to want to read my books.
Maybe it'll work and maybe it won't. Either way it should be therapeutic.
I'm also in the process of setting up a static website where I can have links to all of my books, this blog and the mob of social media sites to which I belong.
So keep your eyes peeled. The winds of change are blowing.
I am going to be making some changes to this blog and other aspects of my writing life. One of the reasons I've had so much trouble with this blog is that I find it hard to come up with topics to blog about. I started it as a way to chronicle my writing life in hopes of attracting an agent. But, I only have so much writing advice to give.
Besides, my goals have changed.
I'm no longer interested in attracting an agent. It's readers that I'm concerned with.
Your average reader isn't concerned with the Indie v Trad wars, or story structure, or any of the other countless topics that interest writers. But, I do think readers like to get to know writers on a personal level.
So, my plan is to lay back on posting about writing or my books, and to just blog about my life and the things that interest me. Hopefully readers of this blog will like me as a person and that will drive them to want to read my books.
Maybe it'll work and maybe it won't. Either way it should be therapeutic.
I'm also in the process of setting up a static website where I can have links to all of my books, this blog and the mob of social media sites to which I belong.
So keep your eyes peeled. The winds of change are blowing.
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