Angela Hoy is such a prolific writer, she and her husband launched their own publishing company.
Now Angela and her husband help aspiring authors achieve their dreams of publication through Booklocker, a POD publishing company.
Angela is a big proponent of an author maintaining their own web presence, even though part of the Booklocker “package” for authors includes a web page for book sales on the Booklocker site.
For more on Angela’s exceptional advice, read an article she wrote on the subject: ONLINE BOOK MARKETING THAT WORKS
Angela has registered her own name as her domain name, angelahoy.com and she has a Wordpress blog installed there. Angela’s blog is still sporting a PR of 4. (PR explained.) In comparison, her massive and popular “Writer’s Weekly” site has a PR of 5.
Even though Angela Hoy maintains several other web sites in which she can promote her work, she still has her “own” author’s web site.
Which brings up another important point when it comes to Internet Marketing: Angela is NOT unique. It’s VERY common for a business to maintain SEVERAL web sites in addition to using the “free” services offered across the web (Myspace, Facebook, Goodreads)
Having your own author’s web site is ESSENTIAL to your success as an author. If someone who owns their own publishing company also maintains her own web site (which is a Wordpress blog), that’s a sign that your own web site is truly a MUST HAVE proposition.
