Writing Excuses podcast episode 17: Website Marketing for Authors
The Writing Excuses podcast tackles author websites — 15 minutes of smart authors talking about what their colleagues do wrong (and occasionally right), what not-yet-published authors need to do, etc. (Here’s a transcript, if you prefer.)
Free Tools to Create an Online Survey
Free Tools to Create an Online Survey — need to survey your readers? These services let you put up surveys quickly and easily. Watch out for the limitations on the free versions; some of them make you upgrade to paid…
“Website visits translate directly to the number of books bought.”
We’re fascinated by Publishing Trends’ report on author websites (found via PersonaNonData). A group called Codex has done a huge survey on the impact of author websites, and we now have some numbers to back up our theories about what…
Therese Walsh offers advice on choosing a web designer at Writer Unboxed
Therese Walsh offers advice on choosing a web designer at Writer Unboxed — all of it very good.
How to Promote Your Book If You’re Introverted, Socially Inept…
How to Promote Your Book If You’re Introverted, Socially Inept… (via Smart Bitches)
Evite Alternatives
Evite Alternatives (via Kat Richardson)
Pimpin’ Your Book
Agent Colleen Lindsay is running a great series on book promotion on her blog.
Nathan Bransford on author sites and blogs
While we were on vacation last week, agent Nathan Bransford wrote a couple of great posts on author websites and how authors’ blogs influence book sales. There’s some great info in the comments, although there’s also some misinformation about technical…
It’s 10pm. Do you know where your readers are?
Are most of your readers in the US, or elsewhere? Do you have a concentration of readers in Spokane, where your book was featured at a book discussion six months ago? Where should your publisher send you on your next…
Give CSS a try
If you generally use font tags to format the text on your site, give CSS a whirl. It offers more options, and by creating a single CSS file for your whole site, you can format everything all at once —…
