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Did you know most people will visit your author website on their phone?
So it’s super important that your author website looks just as good on mobile as it does on desktop!
I cannot stress enough how important it is to have a good author headshot! So many authors I work with absolutely hate having their photos taken but you will need a decent picture of yourself to use on your author website, social media platforms and probably on your book jacket too.
Most of my author friends are, like me, traditionally published, and one theme that comes up again and again in conversation is frustration. And a sense that we don’t have control over our careers.
I was tidying up my Google Drive recently and I found this post! I originally wrote it as a guest post for someone else’s blog but I had a great Q&A session with my Debut Author group last week and a lot of these topics came up… so I thought it was worth a repost here!
I LOVE working with historical non-fiction authors - I have so much admiration for the amount of work and research that these writers have to put in.
Oh, thrillers… the twisty plots, the unreliable narrators, the heart-in-your-mouth pacing. What’s not to love?
I want to start this article off by saying that if you have been offered a traditional publishing deal for your book, then this is a MASSIVE DEAL.
If you’re an author, it’s tempting to think of your website as a static thing. You build it once then leave it. A bio, a list of books, a contact page, job done!
I’m so excited for today’s chat! Emma Christie and I go way back - we share an agent and I also built her website - and I’ve always admired her energy (and fitness too, this is the woman who walked all the way from Scotland to the Harrogate Crime Writing Festival?!).
You’ll be surprised at the number of authors I talk to who say they don’t think author websites are necessary.