AUTHOR'S WEBSITE(S)

I finally did the thing I've been told I should have done long ago, which is probably why I didn't do it.

I have an author's website. Most of my books are available through it, and I have to admit, Tertulia did a pretty neat job putting it together for me, although, of course, authors still have to do some work.

It's $9.99/month, if you pay monthly--I opted for that--and $7.99 if you pay yearly, which means 20-percent off, I think. (Let me never be the one who pays more cheaply for anything!) You get two weeks free at the start if you are undecided. 

I really thought I could bypass the presumed pomposity of an "author's website" by keeping everything on this blog, but the wave of writerly opinion says otherwise. So I'm going with the flow. We'll see if it makes a difference for sales. (Probably not). But who knows.

My new website is via a domain that is mine for a year, procured through Stripe. Price for that was $15/yearly. Am I wrong to think the whole author's website procedure was pretty painless--financially speaking and otherwise?

Four poetry chapbooks, a collection of short stories, and a novel later, and a complete book of poems on the way--why does that sound like a pregnancy announcement?--I finally did it.

Would love to know via here or my website contact page, how others of you who write feel about having, or not having an author's website.

Mine is: aryafjenkins.com

Cheers!

                                                    

                                                                                         Arya F. Jenkins photo

Alice in Wonderland painted image, section of a mural on a Provincetown sidestreet. References
to both Alice in Wonderland and of course Provincetown are in my novel, Punk Disco Bohemian.

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