{"id":84,"date":"2013-11-27T10:06:55","date_gmt":"2013-11-27T10:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carmelvivier.com\/?p=84"},"modified":"2013-12-04T14:40:55","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04T14:40:55","slug":"does-an-author-need-a-web-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carmelvivier.com\/?p=84","title":{"rendered":"Does An Author Need a Web Page?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">My answer is a resounding YES!\u00a0 But for years I didn\u2019t have one\u2026 many excuses \u2013 couldn\u2019t afford one; didn\u2019t have enough technical savvy to produce one myself; only had one book to sell\u2026 Mostly, I think I was afraid.\u00a0 Those of you who know me might find this hard to believe, but its hard to talk about being a writer\/author without sounding like you\u2019re bragging.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">When I was writing my first book, I would tell people when it was going to be published hoping they would go out an buy it.\u00a0 Then once it was published, I was afraid no one would buy it;\u00a0 I was worried at my first book signing that no one would show up \u2013 I\u2019m sure you see the pattern.\u00a0 Fear \u2013 it can rob you of so many joys if you let it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Just this past week I\u2019ve been reading up on marketing your book and one of the ways to get new readers, is to have a web page where they can find your book and more importantly find out about you.\u00a0 Readers like to feel connected to the authors, and what better way than reading a short bio about you.\u00a0 Finding out what type of books you read, what your hobbies are and more importantly when that next book is coming out.\u00a0 The following scenario\/excerpt from \u201cThe Self Publishing Magazine\u201d really struck home with me:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cA businessman is on the road and notices someone reading a book by an author he has never heard of.\u00a0 As he is online on his laptop, he decides to check this author out via the Internet. He finds the book for purchase, but no other information about the author. He closes his laptop and goes about his business. Author and book title forgotten!\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">When I read this, I thought \u201c<i>this could be my book \u2013 I don\u2019t have a web presence!\u201d <\/i>Right then I decided I had to shake off this fear.\u00a0 After over two decades as a writer and published author, I have something to brag about.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Check out information on my books under Books in the menu section,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">So, if you\u2019re a writer, author, or photojournalist \u2013 do yourself a favour.\u00a0 Get your name out there \u2013 set up a blog or web presence of some sort so that people can find you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Talk again soon\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My answer is a resounding YES!\u00a0 But for years I didn\u2019t have one\u2026 many excuses \u2013 couldn\u2019t afford one; didn\u2019t have enough technical savvy to produce one myself; only had one book to sell\u2026 Mostly, I think I was afraid.\u00a0 Those of you who know me might find this hard to believe, but its hard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carmelvivier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carmelvivier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carmelvivier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carmelvivier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carmelvivier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carmelvivier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91,"href":"https:\/\/carmelvivier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions\/91"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carmelvivier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carmelvivier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carmelvivier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}