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If you’re an author who is already attending book club meetings (virtually, of course) about your book, have you made sure you tell people about that on your author website? Book clubs can be a great way to connect with your fans, old and new alike. Often a book club rotates which member gets toRead more

Most often when working with my author web design clients their books are being sold via online retailers like Amazon, B&N, or iBooks. Occasionally authors have their own solutions, especially self-published authors, like Bookbaby, Blurb, or Lulu. In either case, it’s simple to support this from the perspective of building the website because we canRead more

There are a special breed of authors who are also illustrators. They create things like graphic novels, or children’s and YA fiction, and the beautiful thing about designing their author-illustrator websites is that there is so much visual material to work with! One of the challenges of designing websites for authors of novels or non-fictionRead more

Many authors wear multiple hats.  Maybe you’re an author and an illustrator, or an author and a speaker, or an author of multiple genres, or an author and an educator.  It’s increasingly common that your author website needs to appeal to multiple audiences, but I know that some authors are confused about whether they canRead more

As someone who has built websites professionally for many years now, there are a handful of things I look for in any template or theme I might use to create a website regardless of what kind of site it is, and the platform on which it was built: How long has it been around?  ARead more

Sometimes an author is successful enough that they don’t have to worry much about people finding them in search results and discovering their work, but more often than not, authors, especially new authors, are fighting to be seen, heard, and discovered in a sea of other authors and books. Much of your new audience willRead more

As an author website designer I’d say that nearly 50% of my author clients are self-publishing, and for a variety of reasons. When I first started doing this over 12 years ago that number was much lower, but as the ease of self-publishing has increased, along with lots of online advice on how to doRead more

I love the work that I do creating websites for authors. I’m an avid reader of fiction and nonfiction alike and have learned so much from the books I’ve enjoyed — I’ve been entertained, expanded, and found solace in difficult times. So helping authors bring their books to life on the web so that theyRead more

I try to see everything as an opportunity, including my mistakes. After all, it’s a great way to learn and level up. I see everything you add to your website, or your internet presence in general, as an opportunity to better connect with your audience and reinforce your brand. I’ve previously written about your website’sRead more

Have you read the book, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown? I devoured it back in 2015 and it changed some fundamental things about my thinking. Namely, how to weed out distracting and unproductive thoughts so that I can focus on making a lasting and meaningful contribution. I’ve applied this to variousRead more