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By: Gay

Gay — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 20:05:00 +0000

Thanks for the straightforward discussion of what’s important in an author’s cyber-life. I’m working on my first novel and have my website up and running–it’s good to have reassurance that I’m on the right track, and also to be able to doublecheck that I’ve dotted the i’s and crossed the t’s.

http://www.authorgaymwalker.com/Welcome.html

By: Anne Douglas » Kitsch is good?

Anne Douglas » Kitsch is good? — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 02:33:39 +0000

[...] websites are dramatic, flowery, quaint, and quite a few…well…I have to agree with The Ja(y)nes – stars are just not good. But not many of them are fun, or maybe funny is a better [...]

By: Renee Blaine

Renee Blaine — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 20:52:48 +0000

Thank you for a very informative and entertaining article, but I do have an isue with one point you made.

Simply because an author, especially a beginning author, who probably can’t afford the experience of someone who can build the site if they don’t know HTML themselves or even afford the webspace to begin with, doesn’t have a large, beautifully done website that isn’t from one of the free hosting sites does NOT mean they aren’t serious.

There are many of us out here who are struggling with school, careers, children, etc. Some of us barely make ends meet each month- that extra $100 a year for hosting simply isn’t there at this point in time. Most of us, as we manage to achieve the first rung on the publishing ladder WILL purchase webspace and build ourselves beautiful sites. If right now all we can handle is a free bog or site, and hosting our graphics and such off site- at least we’re making the best of what we have access to right now.

I realize I have probably jumped right up on the soapbox here, and I truly didn’t mean to. I simply wanted to say that I thought it was rather shallow to dismiss authors who haven’t managed to achieve a level of status that you would consider noteworthy yet.

Respectfully:

By: Lynne Connolly

Lynne Connolly — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 14:38:32 +0000

On the button, ladies. I do my own website, because I can, but after lots of comments, I revamped it last year and got rid of all the fancy stuff, all the intense graphics and twiddly bits. I agonised before going with the black, but I’m pretty happy with the results. And yes, ladies, the stars have gone.
Now it’s straightforward, and there’s also a little website map at the bottom of every page, where each page is listed and linked. I’d love it if more people did that, so I could go directly there if I didn’t want to mess about.
I have one site, split into two, because I write two genres, but each site varies only with the color scheme, the layout is deliberately kept the same.
And ok, it’s really cool to be able to type “lynneconnolly” in the title bar and be taken straight to the site!
Blogs I see as more fun, playing, really, and I do have those as well, but they’re for different things, different aspects. I see them as more for the “writer’s life” kind of affair.

By: Jean

Jean — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 01:00:14 +0000

Whether they do it themselves or have a friend or family member do it Ã¢â‚¬â€�? they are online.

I hadn’t considered family or friends looking something up as presence, but absolutely. Even if those people wouldn’t report themselves as being on-line if asked, they are. Thanks for bringing that up.

I’m lukewarm to the MySpace idea, but I set up a page last weekend. Alison Kent was one of the authors who motivated me to do so — Larissa Ione and Stephanie Tyler were my primary motivators. After a week, I’m still leery, but I’m beginning to find numerous viable authors there striving to create community. I’ve set the page up. I think it’s readable, and I hope I can take my time doing something with it.

My primary presence is my blog, but I’ve been thinking about reserving several domain names for an eventual professional presence. Clearly, based upon the suggestions here, that’s something I should do.

By: Nonny

Nonny — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 21:24:15 +0000

I’m gonna add one to the list here.

How about actually telling readers who the frell is publishing your damn book?

I was reading posts on my blog reader earlier today and came across a post on a shared blog with the cover of the author’s forthcoming novel, along with a link to her website. Curious, I went to check it out… this author apparently has four books forthcoming in 2007 and doesn’t mention the publisher for any of them.

WTF?