A Happier NaNo Post

The new NaNoWriMo site launches tomorrow and I will be officially signing up for NaNoWriMo 2011. Oooh, so excited!

I'd love to know when everyone's put up their synopsis and cover art, too, so I can check it out.

So much for shutting up about NaNoWriMo.  

(Blog) Edits

As you have very likely noticed, I've redone the DevCo layout once again. I hope you like it. Just a couple of quick things, then:

My main reason for doing this (and for changing to a pre-made theme) is that blogger has recently added the ability to include separate pages within one blog, and I thought it would be nice, if instead of trying to squeeze descriptions of ourselves and our writing into 25 word blurbs, we could do that but also have whole, infinitely long pages to talk about ourselves and our work and, of course, to shamelessly plug both.

To make life easier, I've set up pages for the Admins. At the moment, all but mine are blank. If you want to put stuff on your page, just go to posting, follow the edit pages link on the right, find the page with your name and click edit. It's pretty smooth sailing from there.


If you can think of any other pages you want added, lemmi know. The downside is that we're only allowed 10 per blog. This means we'll have to choose wisely.

I think that's everything. Lemmi know what you think of the new design (If I can get a good quality, smaller version of our old background, I'll be putting it back up. Not that I don't like the books, but the one-of-a-kindness was good)

Time for Another Shameless Plug (hopefully my last for a while ;)

My website is FINALLY up and running. I think it's got everything it needs, apart from the minor issue of Aigaion Girl not being up for sale yet. Otherwise, I think it's looking really good. I need to come up with some more interesting news than that I've launched the site (which is what is currently showing on the news page) and remember to frequently update the "bits" page, but everything seems to be running smoothly, which makes me very happy. You can check it out here.

Websites & Attracting Attention

My website is almost up and running, and as such, I've been thinking of ways to publicize it, as well as myself. More than that, though, I've been thinking about content, which brings me to my question of the day: What should be included on an author's website?

So far, I have the page titles: Home, News, About, Stories, Poetry, Photography, Bits* and Blog**. The Home page has (for the moment) an ad for Aigaion Girl, which will change based on what I'm trying to publicize at the time. The News page is where I'll put information about new books, book release parties and whatever else I can think of that's newsish. The About page, obviously, is a little blurb about me, and the Photography page will have a bunch of pictures which I took last year (when I have some more $$, I'll have it adjusted so that I can upload and my own content for that page). Where I'm confused is with the Stories and Poetry pages. The more I'm thinking about this, the more I'm wondering if they were really necessary - especially, because right now, I really only have one story that's ready for public consumption. The poetry page is a bit easier, because I can include the full text of my best poems... but again, is it necessary? Will people be interested in reading my poems?

This, of course, brings me to my other question, which is: How do I go about getting my name out there? I have some ideas fot this. Once A/G is actually available for sale, I'm going to invite all of my friends to take that silly FB quiz and ask them to ALL invite their friends as well. Then, at the end of every single possible result, include a link to my site. I'm also going to put my website in the signature of my emails, so all of my correspodence has it, and anything I send out that gets forwarded has it as well. I know I want to have a book release party, to which I'll invite everyone I know, but beyond that, I'm kind of at a loss.

I read somewhere (I believe in my Writer's Market Guide) that a writer should spend ten minutes a day networking, which I think is probably true, especially when you consider the way that the famous writers of yore always seemed to travel in packs. The problem is, I'm not really sure how to go about doing it, or who I should be networking with. Plus, even if I knew a tonne of people, I always feel weird about taking advantage of my connections, even if those connections are happy to help.

So, there you have my little (and long-winded) dilema. Enjoy your day ;)

*Bits is the page where I can upload whatever I want: flash fiction, pictures, whatever.
**The Blog link links to my personal blog.