When you build your author website or blog, you hope that someday it will be hopping with people and full of conversation and debate. But there’s a potential downside to your site becoming so popular: the isolation of new visitors. Some author websites feature blog entries or conversations that date back for months. When someone […]
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Some authors erroneously think that developing a website is all they need to do to create an online presence for themselves. And some web designers and developers reinforce that idea by focusing all their efforts on the process of building the website (because that’s all they know how to do) and ignoring everything that needs
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I know I’ve written about this a lot, but every time I see another expert backing up what I’ve had to say, I feel the need to post again on the subject. Today’s post is in reference to an interview with Annik LaFarge on TheBookDoctors.com. Her bio there reads as follows: “Annik is the author
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I have a love/hate relationship with audio and video on an author’s website. Multimedia can be a great asset on a website, but it can also be the thing that makes people leave the site the fastest. But more on that later. First, here are some valuable ways that an author can choose to use
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ust a quick note this afternoon to inform all of you about a newly-launched site that may be of interest to authors (and many other creative types). It’s www.SelfEmployedCentral.com, and it speaks to anyone who is (or hopes to be) a writer, artist, freelancer, small business owner, or professional in private practice. And, I confess,
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Well, the time has finally come. The New York Times is finally including e-books in their bestseller lists. After all, if they’re going to categorize hard cover and paperback separately, it’s about time they recognized e-books as its own book format. Check out the NY Times website on Friday. That’s when this week’s e-book bestseller
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Recently a blogger for Publishers Weekly, Barbara Vey, wrote a piece about what she likes and doesn’t like on author websites. The full post is here, but I thought I’d include the highlights: DO have a website in the first place! Quote: “To me, being an author is a business and as a business you
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Remember when publishing was limited to a stuffy breed of executives in New York or San Francisco who read manuscripts over $5 cups of coffee? Boy how times have changed. Self-publishing has grown exponentially in the last 10 years. So has social networking sites for authors which allow aspiring writers to submit their own works
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Okay, it’s not like me to write a headline that’s a play-on-words (in fact it’s generally a web no-no). But I couldn’t resist 🙂 The purpose of this post is to point out how the time of day that you choose to do things on the web can make a world of difference. So next
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An English professor of mine once said, “Poems often come from other poems.” I have found that poems can come from old blogs posts as well. Looking through blogs and journal entries can provide rich text to take from and emote. A great exercise for anyone with writer’s block! An author could develop characters, storylines,
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