Building Your Author Platform – Part 1: Getting Everything in Place

This is the first of a four part series, to be published every Friday. This week will focus on the technicalities of setting up an author platform, from choosing a good name to hosting options.

So, you’ve made the decision – you’ve researched your favourite authors and seen what they all have in common: a website, or a ‘platform’ as it is more suitably dubbed. Joanna Penn has one, David Gaughran has one. But where do you start? What’s all this technical rubbish about domain names, self-hosting...