A Working Writer's Website: Publish, Promote and Profit?

Guest Author - Danielle Hollister

If you're an online writer, you should definitely consider developing a website.

Perhaps you've been thinking about it, but you have some questions about the process...

This article will help to point you in the right direction and provide answers to questions like:

Writers should produce a website to tell the world they exist!
Your own special place on the Internet can offer readers, publishers, businesses, other writers and prospective clients a glimpse into your world.
Features on your site can include:
- your resume
- references (with names, titles, addresses, phone numbers and/or email contacts)
- a list of your services (what type of writing you do - creative, journalistic, academic, medical, business, marketing, public relations etc.)
- a sampling of your writing (full text articles, reports and/or features previously published or available for free publication)
- links to your writings on the web (work on other websites - poetry, fiction, nonfiction, essays, commentary or other contributions)
- an option for viewers to access your writings via autoresponder (see list below for where to get one for free - these sites will tell you how to use autoresponders too!)
Getting started is a fairly simple process with today's variety of free services available online.
Browse the lists below for more information:
Free Website Providers
Free Autoresponders
Would you like to look at some other writer's websites for ideas?
Check out this list for examples:
Once you have created your site, you will need to promote it on the web.

Explore the following links to free resources for web promotion, tools and more.