I came across an author website that organizes its content in a really interesting way! Sarah Susanka, author of “The Not So Big Life” has a secondary navigation on her website which runs down the right hand side. It breaks down her book by chapter. For each individual chapter, she has an audio bit, in […]
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Thanks to a blog entry from a graduate assistant at the Masters in Fine Arts – Literary Fiction & Nonfiction program at Southern New Hampshire University (Writing in the SNHU-MFA), I came across the website of an author who really is using social networking to her advantage … even before her book is published! Maria
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No two author websites are the same. But there are certain things that should be on every site. Notice I say “should be” … Search the web and you’ll find some authors’ websites that are missing some crucial information! While I’m a big supporter of making every author’s website unique, here are the no-brainers for
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Look at a dozen author websites — and websites in general — and you’ll find vastly different types of homepages. Some are flashy and exciting … some are informational … some are promotional. So what’s the best type of homepage for you? And what should the ideal homepage accomplish? Here are some ideas: The Flashy
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Like it or not, an author website really is a sales tool. And whether you’re talking about selling the book or “selling” the author, the philosophy is very much the same as any other sales tool. People like special offers. But this isn’t a Macy’s holiday sale. How exactly can a writer’s website use special
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Still not convinced that you should have your own author website or book website? Phyllis Zimbler Miller, marketing guru, book author, and owner of the Internet Marketing company www.MillerMosaicLLC.com, recently wrote an article called “Why Book Authors Need Their Own Websites.” Here’s an abbreviated version of the list of reasons she gave: If you use
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A special thank you to our author, Sherry Jones, who mentioned that we created her website. In a post on GoodReads.com, she said: “I have a very cool website with lots of goodies, created by smartauthorsites.com.” Thanks, Sherry!!
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I recently came upon a post in The online journal of writer Jon Gibbs. He proposes that an author’s blog should be completely separate from their website. Here’s how he sums it up: “From a strictly self-promotional point of view, there are two types of people in the world: those who’ve at least heard of
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Author Anna McPartlin is doing something very interesting with her website for the book “So What If I’m Broken.” She’s actually allowing readers to interact with her characters in cyberworld. The feature is being promoted as “A book that talks back.” Anna says, “What is really exciting is that readers might actually change the story
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The Lord of Death, by our own Eliot Pattison, was chosen as one of the Top 100 Books of 2009 by Publisher’s Weekly. It was one of only seven mysteries to make it. Congrats, Eliot!
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