I'd love to know
what author websites you admire the most?
Regardless of which path you take, be mindful that a lot of developers do not know a lot about marketing in general, and book marketing in particular, and that's
what your author website is — a book marketing tool.
What Every Author Website Needs • About the Author • List of books WITH links to buy • Mailing List — with incentive to join • Social Media Home Base • Navigation is KEY • Contact Form
Here's
what an author website is for: engaging potential readers.
It seems every day people have less and less time to read
what your author website is about.
This blog entry is my accumulated wisdom for
what every author website needs to contain.»
Patrick Samphire presents The Ultimate Guide to
What Every Author Website Needs posted at Letters from Mars, saying, «Your author website is your home, your shop window, and your little corner of your favourite café where you can hang out.
So while I've covered a lot of book publicity issues in this blog like how to utilize social networks or
what an author website should contain, I've never posted about how to publicize a book because one post (or even a series of posts) will never cover that.
Some time ago (ages ago) I wrote a blog post called «The Ultimate Guide to
What Every Author Website Needs — Part 1 ``, and then some hefty deadlines came along and then some more, so I'm only now getting around to Part 2.
Whether you're self - publishing your book or you're being traditionally published, here's
what your author website needs:
Patrick Samphire presents The Ultimate Guide to
What Every Author Website Needs — Part 2 posted at Letters from Mars, saying, «This guide focuses on how authors can make sure their websites are fast, efficient, and easy to use, and so improve their book sales.
Not exact matches
Our industry leading
website (FamilyOffices.com), a weekly podcast on iTunes, newsletter, webinars, quarterly events, and
authored the bestselling book in the industry is
what drives membership.
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.
I strongly encourage readers of this
website (and the
author of this article) to form their understanding of
what abuse is by reading the published works of Anne Ganely, Michael Samsel, Lundy Bancroft, Bill Eddie, Alice Miller or any other competent LCSW.
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
Answers on this
website are expected to back up the claims they make and not just say
what the
author's intuition and personal observations say is correct.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
All details on my
author website: www.afshanhashmi.com Also please visit my general
website to see
what else I do: www.drafshanhashmi.com
-- Kate McMillan @outbox,
Author & Book
Websites:
What to Include?
Best way to figure out
what works for any audience is read
websites / blogs / forums with
authors of that genre who are actively promoting.
Readers,
what other suggestions do you have for
author websites?
What you DO have control over is that once the review is published, you can use this information on your own
website, in your Amazon
Author section or in your advertising.
The «internal» portion of our
website is affectionately known as either the «
Author's Center» or «Publishing Center», and is
what all our clients see if they have published a book with us, or are currently in the production process.
Learn why
author websites are a key part of book marketing,
what information the best
author websites include, and how to use a
website to connect with readers.
Author websites vary from basic to extensive, depending on how much
website knowledge they have and
what their budget is.
«Over the last several years, I've tried countless
author marketing
websites but none of them delivered
what they promised.
The Booktrack
website has a special section for
authors, which explains
what Booktrack can do for them:
One of those is your
website, so that's
what I'm going to be talking about today; your
author website.
Many of the posts I listed above, although titled on
Author Brand, actually start discussing logos,
websites, and social media —
what I immediately think of as «a platform» or the method to communicate.
So,
what does this really mean??? It means that when one book is purchased from my
Author Website and mailed to a reader in the U.S., I will donate approximately $ 7.00 to HDSA.
I was looking at an
author's
website the other day and the only way to contact him was via his agent —
what sort of message is that to send out to readers?
Readers love to see
what you look like, so put in your very best
author photo, and a short bio, complete with all your social media links, your
website address, and a direct link to your email list in case they loved your book so much they want to be kept updated on further releases.
About a year ago, in one of my guest posts for Janice Hardy's Fiction University, I talked about
what we should do for our
author website.
Let's take a look at
what exactly makes
author websites work.
What's your most important task if you want to become a published
author: Practice writing, plan a book or create an
author website?
If a publisher isn't pushing new titles or
author appearances on its own
website,
what sort of promo can an
author expect from them elsewhere?
A good, strong, well - designed
author website is the very basis of
what you need to start building a powerful
author platform, but it's just the beginning.
What makes a
website for
authors particularly unique vs. a
website for bloggers, e.g., or vs. any other small business?
In the introduction to this series of posts, I referred to a 2008 Codex Study that listed
what readers want on an
author website.
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.)
If you start with content in hand, you will instead look at building your
author website around
what you want to say — and be done faster, and with a better product.
Please visit my
author website, http://aishahmacgill.com for a sample of
what you can expect for yourself.
Remember, it's important to tempt subscribers with just a taste of
what's new on your
author website — don't hit them with everything and the kitchen sink!
Question:
What is the primary reason you go to an
author website?
When submitting a book to be featured on this
website,
authors can choose on a sliding scale to
what extend a certain element is represented in their book (for example: a little Action, lots of Romance, no Sadness, some Magic...).