You don't have to have a dedicated web page on WordPress or whatever. Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Goodreads all provide a way to let your possible readers know about your books.
As soon as you have even one book published, you should sign up for Amazon's Author Page. It lets you add a photo and a bio of yourself, although you COULD post any image and text. More importantly, there's a button a reader can click so they can add an email address. This way every new book added to Amazon automatically triggers a notice to your followers about the addition. East peasy. You don't have to have any site which you maintain.
Goodreads is similar. Also it lets you add a link to your web site, if you have one. You can also link to your social networking sites such as Facebook. I don't really see the utility of that, but maybe I just don't understand its signigicance.
B&N author page is just a bare bones listing of all your books, but useful still. For one, like the other two it lets a reader new to you find your other books and preview them, then buy them if they like the preview.
Here are my links to Amazon, B&N, and Goodreads so you can see what you might get if you use their services.
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/"Laer Carroll"
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6490844.Laer_Carroll
As soon as you have even one book published, you should sign up for Amazon's Author Page. It lets you add a photo and a bio of yourself, although you COULD post any image and text. More importantly, there's a button a reader can click so they can add an email address. This way every new book added to Amazon automatically triggers a notice to your followers about the addition. East peasy. You don't have to have any site which you maintain.
Goodreads is similar. Also it lets you add a link to your web site, if you have one. You can also link to your social networking sites such as Facebook. I don't really see the utility of that, but maybe I just don't understand its signigicance.
B&N author page is just a bare bones listing of all your books, but useful still. For one, like the other two it lets a reader new to you find your other books and preview them, then buy them if they like the preview.
Here are my links to Amazon, B&N, and Goodreads so you can see what you might get if you use their services.
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/"Laer Carroll"
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6490844.Laer_Carroll
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