website
Been trying to write this post for a couple of hours and just keep getting distracted.
Jay, who is designing/building the website for me, and I had a nice long phone conversation tonight in which we figured out exactly what I want. I am notoriously the kind of person who has no idea what he wants until he sees it, so really we're just playing with what she's already proposed and figuring out what will get tabs on the Main Page (which will include a photo of me, a Bio, and a link to a page where you can learn all about The Firflake and how to purchase it). There will be a short story tab. There will be a Links tab (which will include links to fellow authors like Carolyn Gray and Joseph Pittman and Brian Fox Ellis, musicians like The Dalliance and Casey Stratton, and whatever else I put up there (probably links to favorite webcomics like Broken Things and Pictures of You and School Spirit, to name three). There will be some form of blog, but not a link to this one ... I think any blog on my website needs to be a tad more 'professional' and less personal than this one tends to be. Posts on the website will be about writing, perhaps book reviews and tv chatter ... but no personal-life or work-life stuff. There will be a Contact Me page, of course. There will be a "What's Coming" page on which I will announce, for instance, book signings or things like "I just won the Writers Digest Self-Published Books Competition!" (I can dream until next month when they announce the real winners, can't I?)
And brother Jon has suggested that, rather than publish one of my Halloween stories to the page as I had originally thought ... perhaps I should record an podcast-type thingie and put that up, since most of my Halloween stories tend to sound like campfire stories anyway. I don't think Darrell, who has offered to host the site for free on his servers, will be able to handle running video/audio -- but Jay suggested that perhaps I could record the audio, create some simple visuals, and post the resultant piece on Youtube and just link to it from my website. That is an idea that is worth figuring out if it is workable -- mostly the recording part.
And with those thoughts finally committed to LJ ... time for me to try to go to sleep!
Jay, who is designing/building the website for me, and I had a nice long phone conversation tonight in which we figured out exactly what I want. I am notoriously the kind of person who has no idea what he wants until he sees it, so really we're just playing with what she's already proposed and figuring out what will get tabs on the Main Page (which will include a photo of me, a Bio, and a link to a page where you can learn all about The Firflake and how to purchase it). There will be a short story tab. There will be a Links tab (which will include links to fellow authors like Carolyn Gray and Joseph Pittman and Brian Fox Ellis, musicians like The Dalliance and Casey Stratton, and whatever else I put up there (probably links to favorite webcomics like Broken Things and Pictures of You and School Spirit, to name three). There will be some form of blog, but not a link to this one ... I think any blog on my website needs to be a tad more 'professional' and less personal than this one tends to be. Posts on the website will be about writing, perhaps book reviews and tv chatter ... but no personal-life or work-life stuff. There will be a Contact Me page, of course. There will be a "What's Coming" page on which I will announce, for instance, book signings or things like "I just won the Writers Digest Self-Published Books Competition!" (I can dream until next month when they announce the real winners, can't I?)
And brother Jon has suggested that, rather than publish one of my Halloween stories to the page as I had originally thought ... perhaps I should record an podcast-type thingie and put that up, since most of my Halloween stories tend to sound like campfire stories anyway. I don't think Darrell, who has offered to host the site for free on his servers, will be able to handle running video/audio -- but Jay suggested that perhaps I could record the audio, create some simple visuals, and post the resultant piece on Youtube and just link to it from my website. That is an idea that is worth figuring out if it is workable -- mostly the recording part.
And with those thoughts finally committed to LJ ... time for me to try to go to sleep!