Tabitha Vohn's Blog - Posts Tagged "reading"
Are Author Websites Really Necessary?
Back when I was a dewy-eyed young writer, I paid a ridiculous amount of cash for a website, because that's what I thought I should do.
My "official" website was never anything more than a parrot of identical postings on Goodreads, Facebook, Twitter, & Tumblr. And if anyone wanted to look for one of my books, Amazon and Smashwords or wonderful Goodreads are the places to go.
Now, five years in, I cannot speak as to a single reader that cash cow of a website has ever gleaned.
So my question to you (if you're reading this): Are official websites really necessary? I mean really. Do you, as a reader, visit the websites of your favorite authors? Would you start or stop reading an author's material based on the author's "official" webpage?
Interested to hear your thoughts.
My "official" website was never anything more than a parrot of identical postings on Goodreads, Facebook, Twitter, & Tumblr. And if anyone wanted to look for one of my books, Amazon and Smashwords or wonderful Goodreads are the places to go.
Now, five years in, I cannot speak as to a single reader that cash cow of a website has ever gleaned.
So my question to you (if you're reading this): Are official websites really necessary? I mean really. Do you, as a reader, visit the websites of your favorite authors? Would you start or stop reading an author's material based on the author's "official" webpage?
Interested to hear your thoughts.
