Here we are at February and another post for the Insecure Writer's Support Group. Learn more about them at their website or Facebook page. Here's our question for the month: What turns you off when visiting an author's website/blog? Lack of information? A drone of negativity? Little mention of author's books? Constant mention of books?
My least favorite thing about visiting website isn't listed above or unique to author websites. It's a popup that appears as soon as I enter the website. I'm not going to sign up for a newsletter until I've had a chance to view the website and decide if I'm interested, so I'll always remove the popup. To be honest, I don't pay much attention to the newsletters I'm subscribed to. (I'm not good about sending out newsletters anyway; even when I do, they generate more unsubscribes than sales.) As a reader, I mainly want to know when the author's next book is coming out so I can preorder it if I'm interested.
Let's turn the question around: what motivates you to look at author websites in the first place? Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments.
3 comments:
I don't like the immediate pop-ups either.
Several others have mentioned pop-ups. Anne R. Allen says they are a big writer no-no.
The popup window for their newsletter is annoying. I don't have a newsletter anymore, but the one for DLP is listed at the bottom of the page if people are interested.
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