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WordPress For Writers: Create an Awesome Author Website That Helps You Sell Books
Do you need an author website but don’t know where to start?
This comprehensive guide will take you through all the steps you need to build a site with WordPress,com or WordPress,org.
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Communicate with readers
Sell more books.
With practical guides and actionable tips to help you create or improve your author website.
This comprehensive guide will take you through all the steps you need to build a site with WordPress,com or WordPress,org.
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Communicate with readers
Sell more books.
With practical guides and actionable tips to help you create or improve your author website.
322 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 21, 2019
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About the author
Rachel McCollin
15 books8 followersI'm a voracious reader and read in a variety of genres including thrillers, mystery, literary, sci-fi, historical and urban fantasy.
I'm also a writer - please check out my author page under my pen name, Rachel McLean.
I'm also a writer - please check out my author page under my pen name, Rachel McLean.
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June 24, 2023
I found this book really helpful for an anxious beginner. Rachel writes gently, introducing topics slowly and repeating herself frequently. In fact, probably half the text is repetition. For the novice, that is comforting.
I took a lot of notes from Rachel’s book. In the process, I became familiar with my dashboard and options as a writer. It was quite helpful.
One of the challenges of designing websites is the constant change of format and options and themes. To manage questions, Rachel created a website where she posted a lot of articles. Throughout the book, she referenced articles we could read to help with questions we might have.
However, when I went to read those articles, I found the website did not exist.
I searched for Rachel, found another website by her, but there was no way to contact her. Finally, I found her on Facebook and sent her a note that her website was gone. I bet she already knew that!
This was ironic, since throughout the book she emphasized the importance of maintaining a reliable, consistent blog voice online.
Bottom line? This is an affordable book that gently guides a beginner, a writer, through the web of menus on a site and gives very opinionated directions on how to begin. I appreciated it. I went on to read WordPress for Beginners 2023 by Dr. Andy Williams to actually set up my author website. Rachel’s book made it easy for me to do that, having familiarized me with a lot of the Dashboard. Dr. Andy does have current information and an active website to support it.
I took a lot of notes from Rachel’s book. In the process, I became familiar with my dashboard and options as a writer. It was quite helpful.
One of the challenges of designing websites is the constant change of format and options and themes. To manage questions, Rachel created a website where she posted a lot of articles. Throughout the book, she referenced articles we could read to help with questions we might have.
However, when I went to read those articles, I found the website did not exist.
I searched for Rachel, found another website by her, but there was no way to contact her. Finally, I found her on Facebook and sent her a note that her website was gone. I bet she already knew that!
This was ironic, since throughout the book she emphasized the importance of maintaining a reliable, consistent blog voice online.
Bottom line? This is an affordable book that gently guides a beginner, a writer, through the web of menus on a site and gives very opinionated directions on how to begin. I appreciated it. I went on to read WordPress for Beginners 2023 by Dr. Andy Williams to actually set up my author website. Rachel’s book made it easy for me to do that, having familiarized me with a lot of the Dashboard. Dr. Andy does have current information and an active website to support it.
April 22, 2020
It has some good information in it and I would recommend it to a beginner. A good starting point for writers brand new to the WordPress game.
May 16, 2020
A great guide for writers starting their website journey!
Easy clear explanations throughout.
Easy clear explanations throughout.
July 25, 2025
all the internal links to her website with extra information are dead
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