For what you should have on a website (and for some examples), check today's The 26th Story's post
about good author websites.
Not exact matches
Web content guru Gerry McGovern,
author of «Killer Content» — one of the
best books on writing copy for the web — says that one of the biggest mistakes companies make in regards to their
website content is thinking that customers care one little bit
about the company.
About the
author This is a guest post written by the
author of a FindGasCards.com a
website where you can find the
best gas cards, as
well as a helpful auto blog!
This outfit has thought through what writers want and made it fun to stay on the
website and learn
about how to be a
better author entrepreneur.
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ABOUT THE
AUTHOR: Elena Petrova is
well known in the Russian dating industry by her
website Russian Brides Cyber Guide (http://www.womenrussia.com), which is an informational source
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about Russia and Russian women.
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
About Blog Christine Arylo is a best selling author, transformational teacher and speaker, women's leadership advisor and the founder of the foundation of self - love Frequency about 2 posts per month Since Aug 2008 Website christinearylo.com/blog+ Follow Facebook fans - 4
About Blog Christine Arylo is a
best selling
author, transformational teacher and speaker, women's leadership advisor and the founder of the foundation of self - love Frequency
about 2 posts per month Since Aug 2008 Website christinearylo.com/blog+ Follow Facebook fans - 4
about 2 posts per month Since Aug 2008
Website christinearylo.com/blog+ Follow Facebook fans - 4,046.
Scotland
About Blog This is the Official
Website of Joanne Rowling, who writes under the pen names J. K. Rowling and Robert Galbraith, is a British novelist, film and television producer, screenwriter and philanthropist,
best known as the
author of the Harry Potter fantasy series.
He is the
author of EATING LAS VEGAS — The 50 Essential Restaurants, which will have its 5th edition published in December, 2016, as
well as being the
author of the Eating Las Vegas
website Frequency
about 1 post per week.
The
Best Websites For K - 12 Writing Instruction / Reinforcement The
Best Places Where Students Can Write Online The
Best Sites For Grammar Practice Not «The
Best,» But «A List» Of Mindmapping, Flow Chart Tools, & Graphic Organizers The
Best Resources For Researching & Writing Biographies The
Best Resources For Learning How To Write Response To Literature Essays The
Best Places Where Students Can Write For An «Authentic Audience» The
Best Places Where Students Can Create Online Learning / Teaching Objects For An «Authentic Audience» The
Best Places To Read & Write «Choose Your Own Adventure» Stories The
Best Sites To Learn
About Advertising The
Best Websites For Developing Academic English Skills & Vocabulary The
Best Online Interactive Exercises For Writing That Are Not Related To Literary Analysis The
Best Online Resources To Teach
About Plagiarism The
Best Resources For Learning Research & Citation Skills The
Best Sites For Students To Create & Participate In Online Debates The
Best Online Resources For Helping Students Learn To Write Persuasive Essays The
Best Spelling Sites The
Best Sites For Gaining A Basic Understanding Of Adjectives The «
Best» Sites For Helping Students Write Autobiographical Incident Essays The
Best Sites To Learn «Feelings» Words The
Best Sites For ELL's To Learn
About Punctuation The
Best Resources To Help Students Write Research Essays The
Best Sites For Learning To Write A Story The
Best Writing Advice From Famous
Authors The
Best Resources On Punctuation
Included in this
website is information
about writing with learning disabilities (such as dyslexia, dysgraphia, and fine motor delays) that hold students back from reaching their highest writing potential, as
well as publishing opportunities and advice for young ambitious fiction
authors.
Visit the ASCD Conference on Educational Leadership's
website for more information
about on - site special events such as the
Author Talks as
well as information on sessions, registration, and much more.
In the article titled 7 Reason Why
Authors Must Blog we discuss these benefits which include creating
good quality content, working on your writing skills and allowing
website visitors to learn more
about you and your message.
The
best part is that your
author website design doesn't need to be incredibly elaborate, and you don't have to worry
about setting it up yourself!
Scrivenerville — A
website devoted to teaching
authors about Scrivener features and ways to use Scrivener
best for your writing needs.
Be advised, this is
about 5 % as efficient a process as using Amazon's API, but I feel it is a
good idea that NovelRank continues to offer solutions for
authors where other
websites and publishers can not provide the information.
Author photos go on the back of your book's cover next to the
About the
Author section, as
well as on your
website, social media profiles, and media kit.
The
good news is, many of the
websites where
authors can learn
about Outskirts Press are already in RWD, and these include all the social media sites that make up our
Author Community — sites like:
And we've brought you some of the
best insider info
about building your online
author platform — from creating a solid, functional
author website to engaging potential readers on social media.
About a week ago, it was my
good fortune to be introduced to a
website that is simply in love with books and
authors — especially, Indie Books and A
authors — especially, Indie Books and
AuthorsAuthors.
, Baked Hot Chocolate, and Planter's Punch
Author Websites, Pasta Roundup, and The Minimum Sage Cocktail What No One Tells You
About Publishing, Pesto Bread in a Jar, Dealer's Choice Cocktails A Land Library, Pancake Muffins, and a Book on Bourbon Food Rules,
Better Sandwiches, and a Ginger Caipirinha How to Find a Literary Agent, a Mint Julep Video, and Not Derby Pie Bars Why We Can't Read Anymore and a Mother's Day Menu Facebook is Eating the Internet and a Twenty - Minute Asian Noodle Soup Building Libraries of Thought for Ourselves and a Memorial Day Menu William Zinsser on Nonfiction and a Wild Feast
Website design is an evolving art that integrates visual impact and well - crafted content with your marketing and promotional goals, so it's always smart to consult a professional designer before making any decisions about adding music and sound to your author w
Website design is an evolving art that integrates visual impact and
well - crafted content with your marketing and promotional goals, so it's always smart to consult a professional designer before making any decisions
about adding music and sound to your
author websitewebsite.
Also, I have done several
author websites and while some are easy to do and look great (takes me
about a day to set up), other
authors refuse all practical design advice, eschew a decade of
best design and layout practices for maximum userability and sales, ignore what's current and trending and modern.
Indie
authors perversely focus on marketing, social media, and «getting the word out»
about their book because they are loathe to address and fix the real problems (the book itself may not be very
good, or their cover or
website is ugly, or the book doesn't have any reviews).
The
website StopTheGRBullies.com lists updates with Goodreads users by name as
well as screen shots of some of the comments that have been made
about authors personally, and not just
about their books.
But if an
author like Stephen King acknowledges there «could be» mistakes in his books by having a page on his
website to REPORT them, then what's so wrong
about independent
authors having a book that they can IMPROVE and make
BETTER as time goes by?
The moment I turned the final pages of the
Author's Note I hopped lickety - split to Mary Doria Russell's
website, where she had announced the same day a sequel to Doc, entitled Epitaph, will be released early 2015: Epitaph update: bad news,
good news And she's committed to writing a novel
about Edgar Allen Poe.
Last week, I wrote a post
about author websites and decided this week that I and
better take my own advice!
If you have any questions
about author websites, let us know in the comments below and Michael will do his
best to answer them.
There's nothing speaking
better of you as an
author than a
good - looking
website boasting an army of devoted visitors who connect with each other and talk
about your book.
And the
best place to find this information is on an
author's website in his or her «About the Author» se
author's
website in his or her «
About the
Author» se
Author» section.
Book reviews are considered very
good publicity and no one complains
about authors paying for advertising space on relevant
websites or in magazines.
Send a clear message
about the
BEST thing your
author website is offering them (and learn more
about creating a call to action here).
Learn
about author involvement, AASL
Best Websites for Teaching and Learning, extending your e-book budget, the new national standards, and more!
I'm guest blogging this week over at
author Delilah Devlin «s
about a few do's and don'ts of
website design, ahead of my May class, «Principles of Good Website Design for Writers» at the Fantasy, Futuristic and Paranormal RWA c
website design, ahead of my May class, «Principles of
Good Website Design for Writers» at the Fantasy, Futuristic and Paranormal RWA c
Website Design for Writers» at the Fantasy, Futuristic and Paranormal RWA chapter.
This week is all
about how to outfox Amazon with its push of third party sellers of books and learn what Aer.io is and how to create your own bookstore using its platform on
author website PLUS offer any other book within the Ingram catalog and earn money as
well.
You can find more of Ozee's works on Lulu at his
Author Spotlight, as
well as learn more
about Aaron's writing on his
Author Website.
I talk a LOT
about best practices for
author websites and your Amazon page, but people keep ignoring me.
About a Dog A Bluff Point Romance, Book # 1 By Jenn McKinlay ISBN: 9780399584718
Author Website: jennmckinlay.com Brought to you by OBS Reviewer Jeanie Synopsis: Fall in love with a little help from man's best friend in New York Times bestselling author Jenn McKinlay's contemporary romance
Author Website: jennmckinlay.com Brought to you by OBS Reviewer Jeanie Synopsis: Fall in love with a little help from man's
best friend in New York Times bestselling
author Jenn McKinlay's contemporary romance
author Jenn McKinlay's contemporary romance debut.
If you have questions
about building the
best author website, please leave them in the comments below, and I will be happy to answer them!
What I'm not going to cover is how to literally go
about building a
website (there are other,
better resources out there on that), but rather what
authors should think
about as they build one.
Beyond that, as I alluded to in the opening, there's sort of been a new expectation / conventional wisdom creeping up that the key to being a
Good Hardworking Promoting
Author is to blow out your blog, your Facebook page, your website, your Twitter feed, your Goodreads network, and better yet, all of the above and by the way you need to set up your own author tour and try to get some media appearances going we'd love it if you placed some articles and stories and where's your book trailer oh also don't quit your day job and don't forget about your manuscript deadline and make sure the next book is incredible and amazing and could you spend some time with your family p
Author is to blow out your blog, your Facebook page, your
website, your Twitter feed, your Goodreads network, and
better yet, all of the above and by the way you need to set up your own
author tour and try to get some media appearances going we'd love it if you placed some articles and stories and where's your book trailer oh also don't quit your day job and don't forget about your manuscript deadline and make sure the next book is incredible and amazing and could you spend some time with your family p
author tour and try to get some media appearances going we'd love it if you placed some articles and stories and where's your book trailer oh also don't quit your day job and don't forget
about your manuscript deadline and make sure the next book is incredible and amazing and could you spend some time with your family please?
Whether you have an «
about the
author» page on your
website or use social media platforms to help promote yourself as an indie
author (and hopefully you are doing both), you should create a
well - polished
about - the -
author description of yourself.
This outfit has thought through what writers want and made it fun to stay on the
website and learn
about how to be a
better author entrepreneur.
Whether you're an emerging
author or one that is
well - established, it can be challenging to figure out what belongs on your
website's homepage and what to say
about yourself on the front door to your online presence.
Thanks foor finally writing
about > Why WordPress is the
Best Choice for your
Author Website by @sugarbeatbc < Loved it!
If you are an indie
author, please visit the IBGW
website for information
about getting a full line reading (checking grammar, punctuation, POV, plot, characterization, flow, tension, storyline, word count, redundancy, tenses, and every other manner of novel content) as
well as an included proofread by an IBGW proofreader (see IBGW for rate chart).
* Our Audio Training Library with information and inspiration to help
authors of all book genres get top literary agents, publishers, and book deals (text transcripts are also available) * The Ask a Question area of our main
website where you can ask questions
about literary agents and the
best way to write, market, or publish your books * Live audio broadcasts and replays of our Radio Show with special guests, publishing industry executives, and bestselling
authors such as Diana Gabaldon, Nelson DeMille, and Mary Higgins Clark * The Literary Agent Directory with detailed profiles and contact information for all literary agents looking for writers * The opportunity to register for an introductory
Author Coaching Call via phone or Skype from anywhere in the world (
authors must pay a fee for that service) * More insider information, articles, and updates in our Email Newsletter
An expose was written
about well known Indie
authors buying reviews from review
websites.
If you have questions
about what makes up a
good author website, sign up for a free website consultation from Author
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website consultation from
Author Author Media.
Scotland
About Blog This is the Official
Website of Joanne Rowling, who writes under the pen names J. K. Rowling and Robert Galbraith, is a British novelist, film and television producer, screenwriter and philanthropist,
best known as the
author of the Harry Potter fantasy series.