Creating a writers website
Whether your writing is fiction, nonfiction, published or yet to be published, if you want a career as a writer, you will need a writer’s website. First, you have to purchase a domain and hosting package. Once you have a domain name, have purchased a hosting package, or have decided to use the free Geocities or Google Pages or some type of a blog template platform and forward your domain there, it’s time to consider what should be included on your freelance writing/writer’s website.
The most important thing to include on your writing/writer’s website is going to be your name, either pen name or real name, whichever you choose, and your company name if you plan to offer writing or editing services as a freelance company/provider.
After that, you’ll need all of the following:
About Page
Your main page of your writer’s website is your welcome and for a smaller business, it’s probably going to be your about’ page too. Here you want to tell the potential clients about your writing business, a bit about you, and provide the tone and feel for the rest of the website. If you are a fiction writer and not selling articles and writing services, this ‘about’ page will be your biography, so your readers know more about you. If you are not yet published, this section can be helpful for agents and publishers to view more about you as a person.
Contact Information
In order to get clients for your freelance writing business, they will need to have some way to contact you. I recommend using both an address and a phone number, as well as email addresses. If you’re worried about giving your home address out on the internet (and let’s face it, who can blame you?), I suggest getting a PO Box. However, not just any PO Box. If you go to one of the mailbox stores, you can usually get a physical street address, making it look like your address is a physical address, while not revealing anything personal about where you live. These can run anywhere from $35 per year up to quite expensive.
As for phone numbers, we all know that getting an address from a phone number is pretty easy to do, which would negate the need to get the PO Box. Another option for phone numbers is to get a toll-free number that forwards to your home phone line or to get a VOIP (voice over internet protocol) line. Skype has some that are fully internet based, while Vonage can offer you some that can double as a land line’ type phone.
I personally got a second line in my home and then
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