6 Things Readers Want from
Your Author Website Does your author website measure up?
A beautiful
author website does not the colors of the rainbow make!
Top 10 Tips to a Great Web Page via About.com — Your author website doesn't need to be fancy, but it does need to be appealing.
Your author website does more than brand you as an author or showcase your works — it's also a resource for readers interested in getting to know you as a person.
Creating an author website doesn't need to be an intimidating or complicated process.
An effective
author website does not have to be hugely complicated.
Nine out of 10 author websites don't include a shipping address, phone number or email address in an easy - to - see location on the homepage.
The purpose of your website is to get fans and sell books, not just provide information, and there are a lot of strategies that most author websites don't use (most author websites are terrible in terms of actually converting prospects, so they aren't really good examples of what to do for yours.)
What kind of
author website do you have or do you plan to have?
Author websites don't have to be complex if you don't want them to be; five simple pages is enough.
Translation: authors websites don't have to include everything about the book (s) or the author.
Great author websites don't have to be complicated and you can manage your own site when you build your site on WordPress.
Most author websites don't instill confidence / professionalism enough to sell books.
Third, most publisher and
author websites do not have a very large reach, so their discoverability is less than that of the major retailers.
Not exact matches
For example, if you were an
author writing a book about how to drive traffic to a
website, you need to find an example of how your business suffered when it didn't have traffic to its site.
The problem with a title like «Study links vitamins to higher death rates in women,» which ran on CTV's news
website, is that the study's
authors did not reach that conclusion; the headline writer
did.
All articles on this
website are the opinions of their respective
authors who
do not claim or profess to be medical professionals providing medical advice.
The
author of this
website is not a registered / licensed investment adviser and
does not offer investment advice.
It would be great to see the
author maintain an up to date set of data (or at least checked links) on his
website for the book and guarantee to
do this for as long as the book is on sale at least.
Look, along with teaching and writing about Scripture and theology, I also design
websites and publish books for other
authors, and I get paid a little bit of money to
do so.
As fans and critics wait to see what Rob Bell
does next after leaving Mars Hill Bible Church last October in the wake of all the hubbub over Love Wins, his
website gives a fresh glimpse of what the pastor and
author is up to now: offering fellow pastors (and others) the chance to pay $ 500 to pick his brain.
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author's philosophies, experiences and opinions and
does not constitute medical advice.
The information, comments, and ideas expressed on this
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author and
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Don't forget to check out new shareable content from SNA to help you positively promote your school meal program during SNEW, and all year; visit the School Lunch Hero Day
website to learn more about the history of the holiday, and
author Jarrett J. Krosoczka and his «Lunch Lady» series of graphic novels.
API
does not review other content on the
author's blog or
website and takes no responsibility for how that information may or may not align with API's ethos or API's Eight Principles of Attachment Parenting.
The
authors, Gary Chapman and Ross Campbell,
do have a
website with an assessment test that might be helpful.
I've found instructions on what to
do and how to
do it in the guide «How to teach a baby to fall asleep alone» from I think the
author's
website http://www.parental-love.com
The e-mail (whose
author did not respond to an e-mail from ScienceInsider for comment, and which was also posted on Brookes's blog and then removed) listed Brookes» work address and said, «his hate
website is a menace to scientific society.»
Science Buddies is best known for its award - winning, 15,000 - page
website (www.sciencebuddies.org) and its library of more than 1,000 Project Ideas (scientist -
authored outlines that guide students in
doing hands - on science projects).
Lisa is the
author of «7 Secrets Your Mind Doesn't Want You To Know» which you can download for free at her
website.
I don't know if this was one he recommended or not, but, Joel Fuhrman, MD,
author of Eat To Live and The End of Diabetes and The End of Dieting offers a DHA and EPA supplement from his
website, and All Profits Go To The Nutritional Research Foundation, thus he gets no profit from it, and it helps fund further research into nutrition.
One
website stated that the
author had a severe case of candida and
did the Coconut Detox and experienced «the most horrible healing crisis to date, I experienced vomiting, diarrhea, racing heart, shivering, severe bouts of pain, massive insomnia and severe anxiety» and went on further to say «I imagine a heroin withdrawal to be like this».
When even the ADA
website basically said that once you were diabetic the best you could hope for was «control», I didn't hold a lot of hope for a cure, and every «knowledgeable»
author that promised one seemed to counter the previous one.
Don't add the protein powder to the dry oatmeal before you microwave it because this will cause the protein powder to cook, according to Anna Sward, an expert on protein powder cooking, creator of the Protein Pow
website and
author of «The Ultimate Protein Powder Cookbook.»
The
authors don't go into great detail about the scientific basis of eating Paleo — because there are tons of other books and
websites available that
do this they say — but they provide a list of resources where readers can find more information.
A similar question was posed to bestselling
author Andrew Weil, MD. «We don't have any evidence suggesting that coconut oil is better for you than other saturated fats,» he states on his
website.
This
website does not endorse or dispute any nutritional principles established by diet book
authors or other authorities, Fuhrman included.
The Eat - Clean Diet
website has what's called «Oxygen Minutes» that the
author does on behalf of Oxygen Magazine, where she pens a regular column.
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website is a reflection of the
author's philosophies, experiences and opinions and
does not constitute medical advice.
About The
Author: Sally Reiling is the chief writer for BackgroundHawk.com, a
website dedicated to educating you on dating safety, background checks, and anything to
do with investigating the intentions of others.
The
author and this
website do not shoulder any responsibility if you decide to imitate any techniques described in this article and then face any consequences.
The information and views set out in this
website are of the
author's and
do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editor or Moviehole as a whole.
But don't confuse giving your employees content
authoring tools, capturing and storing thousands of user - generated documents and videos, and then making them all available through some cool
website, with content curation.
Author Sue has also created a fantastic
website, www.roadschooldiary.co.uk, with information on where to go, what to
do with kids there, how to develop their learning, and tips & advice from a pro-road-schooler - well worth a visit when you plan your own trip.
The views and opinions expressed on this
website are those of the
authors and
do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of Corwin.
The opinions expressed on this
website are those of the
authors and
do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Hoover Institution or Stanford University.
This is an ongoing source of frustration for me since the
authors of the initial articles and the creators of the searchable
website (Jason Felch and Jason Strong) contacted me back in 2011 regarding whether what they were
doing was appropriate, valid, and fair.
Sure, you have an
author website — these days, what smart, proactive
author doesn't?
If you are interested in building your own
author website, (I discuss the reasons why you should in an article titled) 5 Reasons to Build an Author's Website make sure it has blogging capabilities or find a theme that
author website, (I discuss the reasons why you should in an article titled) 5 Reasons to Build an Author's Website make sure it has blogging capabilities or find a theme tha
website, (I discuss the reasons why you should in an article titled) 5 Reasons to Build an
Author's Website make sure it has blogging capabilities or find a theme that
Author's
Website make sure it has blogging capabilities or find a theme tha
Website make sure it has blogging capabilities or find a theme that
does.
If you read yesterday's post about the options for choosing a platform for your
author website then the next thing to
do is to decide what to put on your
website.