I have a much shorter history. I started a Facebook author page that I posted on over the years and is still up. I’m cheap so I never paid for anything. It’s still out there but I’ve been ignoring it since I jumped to Substack. I’ve been threatening to put up an author webpage for several years but haven’t done it yet. That’s likely to happen later this year or certainly next year. I’ll gladly pay for professional help and maintenance for a website. I’m probably technically good enough to create a webpage using a premade template but that’s not where I want to spend my time. I’m happy to pay a professional to handle those headaches. My time is better spent on writing and social media interacting with readers.
You know, it's interesting how the "it" platform has changed over the years. Like you, I had (technically still *have*) an author page on Facebook, and though it was good for a time at communicating what events I had coming up, I never found it to be as useful as others claimed them to be.
An author site is probably a good direction to go, whether you handle it yourself with one of the out-of-the-box providers or get an assist from a web developer. Personally, I would take the former path, as once you've got it set up, there's not a ton of need for additional maintenance if you're blogging on a platform like Substack, for example. That said, I totally get the appeal of not wanting to sink any time into it. We're pulled in a lot of directions these days!
I have a much shorter history. I started a Facebook author page that I posted on over the years and is still up. I’m cheap so I never paid for anything. It’s still out there but I’ve been ignoring it since I jumped to Substack. I’ve been threatening to put up an author webpage for several years but haven’t done it yet. That’s likely to happen later this year or certainly next year. I’ll gladly pay for professional help and maintenance for a website. I’m probably technically good enough to create a webpage using a premade template but that’s not where I want to spend my time. I’m happy to pay a professional to handle those headaches. My time is better spent on writing and social media interacting with readers.
You know, it's interesting how the "it" platform has changed over the years. Like you, I had (technically still *have*) an author page on Facebook, and though it was good for a time at communicating what events I had coming up, I never found it to be as useful as others claimed them to be.
An author site is probably a good direction to go, whether you handle it yourself with one of the out-of-the-box providers or get an assist from a web developer. Personally, I would take the former path, as once you've got it set up, there's not a ton of need for additional maintenance if you're blogging on a platform like Substack, for example. That said, I totally get the appeal of not wanting to sink any time into it. We're pulled in a lot of directions these days!