Comments on: The very model of a modern author website http://www.quillandquire.com/blog/index.php/2007/08/30/the-very-model-of-a-modern-author-website/ Daily updates from the blog division of Quill & Quire, Canada's magazine of book news and reviews Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:47:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: D. F. (Don) Bailey http://www.quillandquire.com/blog/index.php/2007/08/30/the-very-model-of-a-modern-author-website/comment-page-1/#comment-18171 D. F. (Don) Bailey Tue, 11 Sep 2007 05:30:18 +0000 http://www.quillandquire.com/blog/index.php/2007/08/30/the-very-model-of-a-modern-author-website/#comment-18171 Hello Derek, I just happened across your post about my web site (thegoodlie.com) this evening. I'm flattered to read your generous comments about the site -- and astounded to see the traffic your blog has generated from Q&Q readers around the world. Thanks for featuring my site. Let me know if I can provide you with more information about the novel -- which should be launched sometime next month, here in Victoria. Cheers, Don PS -- If you're in town, let me know, and we'll invite you to the launch party. Hello Derek,

I just happened across your post about my web site (thegoodlie.com) this evening. I’m flattered to read your generous comments about the site — and astounded to see the traffic your blog has generated from Q&Q readers around the world.

Thanks for featuring my site. Let me know if I can provide you with more information about the novel — which should be launched sometime next month, here in Victoria.

Cheers, Don

PS — If you’re in town, let me know, and we’ll invite you to the launch party.

]]> By: Mary Soderstrom http://www.quillandquire.com/blog/index.php/2007/08/30/the-very-model-of-a-modern-author-website/comment-page-1/#comment-17042 Mary Soderstrom Tue, 04 Sep 2007 12:41:33 +0000 http://www.quillandquire.com/blog/index.php/2007/08/30/the-very-model-of-a-modern-author-website/#comment-17042 Writers with some computer savvy and lots of time can compete quite well with industry-supported sites, thank goodness. Given the sorry state of the promotion departments in many publishing houses, doing-it-yourself may be the only way to go. (Oh, I know, I know, promotion people are terribly overworked, but really...) Mary Novik and her friends at the writer trio SPIN have a very nice site, with lots of info. Here's what Random House has put up for her: http://www.randomhouse.ca/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385662055 And here's her own site: http://www.marynovik.com/ And here's SPIN's" http://www.spinwrites.com/mary.htm Don't know if she got supprot from Random House in doing this, but it is very, very nice. Mary Writers with some computer savvy and lots of time can compete quite well with industry-supported sites, thank goodness. Given the sorry state of the promotion departments in many publishing houses, doing-it-yourself may be the only way to go. (Oh, I know, I know, promotion people are terribly overworked, but really…)

Mary Novik and her friends at the writer trio SPIN have a very nice site, with lots of info. Here’s what Random House has put up for her: http://www.randomhouse.ca/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385662055

And here’s her own site:

http://www.marynovik.com/

And here’s SPIN’s”

http://www.spinwrites.com/mary.htm

Don’t know if she got supprot from Random House in doing this, but it is very, very nice.

Mary

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