A website is an asset for any writer.

It gives your readers a place to 'meet' you and find out more about you.

It gives you somewhere to promote your books and/or services.

It can be your 'shopfront' to sell your books, ebooks, and writing services.

Besides that, it can be a lot of fun to create and maintain!

Read more about creating your writer's website...

• Build Your Website With XSitePro
  
  If you've never had anything to do with creating a website before, you probably have no idea where to start. On the other hand, maybe you've struggled with other programs and got nowhere. Perhaps you have downloaded site-building software from the Internet because it was free, or tried a 30-day trial of Dreamweaver before buying - only to find that it's just too hard. XSitePro makes website-building much easier than you'd ever thought possible. Why is it so different?
• Using XHeader for Website Graphics
  
  Whether you use XSite Pro or a completely different software program to create your website, I recommend that you download XHeader and give it a try. This is a terrific program that is really easy to use. (And believe me, I've spent HOURS creating headers using expensive, much more complex programs - yet XHeader's graphics look just as good!)
• Writers' Websites Part 1
  
  Publishers are increasingly supporting the idea of writers having their own web sites... this demonstrates to a publisher that you have 'outreach' to your market. Publishers like to see how savvy you are with marketing.
• Writers' Websites Part 2
  
  Decide on the primary purpose of your website: to promote your fiction and give fans information about you, or to sell your services as a writer. You can diversify later if you wear more than one hat. For now, choose a focus for this, your first website.
• Writers' Websites Part 3
  
  Until now, you may have thought of an e-publisher as the online version of a regular publisher. The good news is that the definition is way broader than that. "E-Publishing" simply means "electronic publishing". (E-mail means "electronic mail".) Anything that can be created on your computer and sent into cyberspace for other people to download has been e-published.
• Your Author Image Via Your Website
  
  If you are an 'emerging' writer, is it worth spending money and time on a personal website? Much depends on the type of writing you do and your potential audience... Children's authors and illustrators, for example, are a specialist group of potential web-sites users because they have volumes of fan mail and lots of students wanting to do projects on them.
• Using PayPal on Your Website
  
  Hundreds of thousands of businesses all over the world use PayPal on their websites. They use it to sell products or to invoice clients for a service. It can be quite costly to set up a merchant facility on your site, and by using PayPal, you can avoid this.