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June 4, 2009 at 6:52 pm
Building a Website
Hi. I have been setting up my website all afternoon. It still needs a lot of work but at least it has started. Here it is evening and I’m blogging about it. I want to thank everyone who offered recommendations: Susan Mitchell, Lynne Hoenig, Bruce Foster, Deborah Frontiera and Donna Maloy. Donna actually came over to my house to help me. What a great lady. Our SCBWI group rocks!
So what would make a person set up a website? I attended an SCBWI event in Austin on April 25, 2009 featuring editors and authors from Blooming Tree Press. One of the workshops led by Madeline Smoot was titled: Marketing Your Book (Yes, you have to. And here’s why.) This workshop covered everything about marketing with many good ideas. An author needs to build a corporate identity and there are several avenues to take including: business cards, websites, blogs—how to blog successfully, why you should blog even before you have a book, facebook and several other avenues. She even gave some good tips on what you should not say on facebook.
One of the best things that came out of the workshop was that Anna Herrington asked if she could keep my manuscript, BLOOMING BLUEBONNETS—JEWELS OF NATURE, to share with her group. She even called her mom and shared it with her. Of course I said, “Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes share it with anyone you want to.” After rewriting it 53 times I was glad an editor liked it!