Once you have an author website that works well for your genre and acts as your online business card, it’s time for the next step: getting your readers and potential new fans to visit! Your author website should act as an online hub where you can showcase your latest...
Ideally, you’ve designed your author website to project your unique author brand. You’ve maximized your bio, included a list of books with blurbs and reviews, started a blog or newsletter, and provided the necessary contact information. Since your author website was...
A stale, stagnant author website is sure to leave your visitors with a bad taste in their mouths and a poor opinion of you and your writing. Instead of seeing you as an interesting author who understands how to interact with his or her readers, you'll seem more like...
This installment of our Industry Influencer series features Karen Leland, who, over the past 25 years, has successfully worked as a management and marketing consultant, keynote speaker, spokesperson, media guest, freelance writer and reporter, author, sometime...
Did you know that Goodreads, the social media site for bookworms everywhere, has a program specifically for authors who want to promote their latest books? Even if you’re not a big fan of social media, it’s important to claim your Goodreads author account so that no...
Hey, writers! We hope you’ve been enjoying our biweekly Links Roundups as much as we’ve enjoyed putting them together for you. The goal is simple: Whether you create your own author website or we create one for you, we want to give you the best tools possible to build...
You’ve already got an author website. Great! But that was just the first step. Now is the time to focus on your promotion and marketing strategy. Traffic begets traffic. Being able to drive traffic to your author website is very important but can also be very...
October is National Self-Promotion Month! Writers, it’s time to shed the belief that self-promotion is “bragging” and get out there to spread the good word about your work. Successful authors know that sharing their literary accomplishments and marketing their novels,...
We’ve all encountered a bad author website or two—clashing color schemes, outdated clip art, miles of tiny text. But what seems so obviously jarring to visitors isn’t always obvious to the website owner, so it’s important to take a hard, objective look at your author...
YouTube videos can be a great way to jazz up your author website AND increase your overall Web presence. YouTube videos, in general, are powerful marketing tools, and viral videos are phenomena that you can’t put a price on. And the good news is, you can make your...
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Working with the Web Design Relief team was a total pleasure. They made the process easy, in-depth, professional, and lyrical. I wanted a site that leaned toward the bohemian and yet held an edge of minimalist sophistication. I couldn’t be happier with my very inviting and creative site! We should win awards with this one!
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I’m pleased with the look of my website. The team at Web Design Relief listened to my suggestions and added a few of their own to make my website look exactly how I envisioned it. I would definitely recommend using Web Design Relief if you are looking to create a website.
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