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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
It seems to work better for some than others; my efforts at "hanging about and giving opinions" haven't resulted in an upsurge of interest in my books, or in significant sales. I'm also not great at promotion, and with a day job and a tight budget, don't have a lot of time or money to throw at the problem.
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Every modern author needs a website and preferably a domain name. You can put as little or as much into this as you want.
Essentially the site should have a little history of yourself, a little history on how how the books started, and better still some unknown facts and meanings related to your work. You can talk about your plans for the future.
Even more importantly, you can select passages from your work that you think will interest people and attract buyers.
If you take questions or comments be careful if it is readable by the public. You should learn to moderate any messages or questions left at the beginning. Try to collect a list of email or twit addresses so you can send news out to your readers.
Don't worry about traffic. It may come or not, but the point is you will be ready if people are interested.
A domain name can be as little as 10 to $12 a year.
A minimal type website can be free provided by many companies. I got my start over at Yahoo for free. They will provide simple tools to build it.
Later I moved up, so to speak.
So you can start with what I consider the essentials for $12 per year and a little work, or even $0 per year if you leave off the domain name.
I suggest you look at 1and1 for rates if you decide to buy stuff.