This post by Joanna Penn originally appeared on her The Creative Penn site on 8/13/15.
Your website is one of the most important things to get sorted if you’re taking your career as an author seriously.
It’s your home on the internet and the hub for your books.
It’s how readers, agents, publishers, journalists, bloggers and podcasters judge how professional you are.
It’s where you can start to build an email list of readers.
A free site is not good enough if you want to take your author career onwards and upwards.
But your own site doesn’t have to be a big deal. It’s not expensive and it won’t take long to set up.
In [a video on the linked page below, written transcript also provided there], I take you through why having your own site is important, how to get a hosting account and set up your wordpress site, as well as using an example theme and how to start your email list.
Read the full post on The Creative Penn.