So yesterday I said, “I changed the background on my website. Look at it and tell me if you like this one better than the solid color background I was using before.”
The reply came: “Yeah, that looks good. But does it really matter? You’ll change it again soon anyway. Why do you do that all the time?”
My answer: “Because, it’s less strenuous than rearranging the furniture and less stressful than trying a new hairstyle.”
I know a lot of my readers receive my blog posts via email subscription, and others just keep up to date with me and my books via Facebook. But I hope everyone will pop into my actual site occasionally (monthly?). The blog is just one part of my site that changes. I put up new sliders on my home page every so often. I add covers for upcoming releases and back cover blurbs as they arrive in my inbox (have you seen the gorgeous covers for The Heart’s Pursuit and Four Weddings & a Kiss?). My featured book is always changing. As reviews and endorsements roll in, they are added to a book’s page. (Check out the wonderful professional reviews for my next release, A Promise Kept!) And of course I always have a Goodreads giveaway going (one ends, another begins). The cover and link to the current giveaway can always be found on my home page. A new one began this morning for Beyond the Shadows.
Last April I launched a totally new site. I loved what the designer did (you can find my recommendations for website programs and more here). But by this fall, I had learned a lot about a websites built upon WordPress, and I was ready for a change in color schemes and a refresh of my logo, etc. I had a lot of fun doing the makeover, too, although there were certainly moments of frustration during the learning curve.
Anyway, if you haven’t come to “see” me in a while, I hope you’ll do so soon. I’m wrapping up the Beloved iPad Mini giveaway in a few more hours (winner to be announced Saturday), and believe it or not, I’m already gearing up for a couple of other nice giveaway after the new year begins.
Before I go, I just have to share the finished cover—front, spine, and back—of A Promise Kept. It is just too beautiful to keep to myself. Look for it in stores at the very end of December/very beginning of January. And if you read on an ereader, don’t miss the $4.99 pre-order special now in progress.
~ robin
