12 Things Every Author Website Needs
E very author needs a website. I think an author should have a website before he has a blog. My argument is that the author website provides a single location for people to go when they want information about the author, while a blog is constantly changing and information that was on it one day may not be visible the next. So we need both, but blogs are such time hogs that once we start blogging, it may be difficult to justify spending the time developing a website. If you’re sold on an author website, here are Twelve things that every author website needs. These may be on separate pages, linked from the home page or you can combine them and even include some on the home page, if that is what you want. 1. About Me You don’t have to call it About Me, but every author website needs a section dedicated to telling visitors who this person is. Tell us why we should listen to you. Tell us something personal. Tell it as a story, not a list of events. Give us information that isn’t available ...