Tag: website

Some Thoughts on Building an Author Website

Last week Sofia Samatar tweeted that authors should have good clean websites, and K. Tempest Bradford has been signal boosting and expanding on that idea.  I’ve had a website since 2007, but seeing all these tweets about the importance of a *good* website made me realize that I was long overdue for a website overhaul.

Before I started building my site, I looked at lots of examples.  A few author websites that I found particularly helpful in getting ideas for content and layout were Mary Robinette Kowal, Cat Rambo, and Ken Liu.  When I was looking at …

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Website: New and Improved!

It’s a lot easier to update an existing website than it is to start over from scratch.   But at some point you start looking at your website from 2007 and wondering if maybe something that isn’t done with html tables might be a good idea.  Probably for most reasonable people, that point was quite a while ago.  But better late than never, right?

The first day of building the new site was immensely frustrating.  WordPress isn’t that hard to learn, but there are a lot of options for themes and widgets and it took a while for me to …

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Story Online, Website Updates

Issue #20 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies is now online, including my story “The Land of Empty Shells.”

Excerpt:

The rest of the birthing was hard work, but painless. Dziko and Terra sprinkled water over the clay to soften it and kneaded the flesh together until there was no way to separate his riverbed brown from her sunset orange. Then they divided the babyflesh into two equal pieces, soon to be their children.

Read the rest here.

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I finally got around to updating my webpage, which had gotten a bit out …

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Q: How long does it take to make a web page?
A: Too long.

I’ve decided the time has come to make myself a web page. I want to put up a gallery of my stock photos, an assortment of links, a blurb about forthcoming publications, that sort of thing. Nothing too fancy, but I *do* want it to look nice.

Making web pages that look nice is hard.

Follow-up Q: How long does it take to switch livejournal layouts/colorschemes?
A: Two minutes.

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