Content? We don't need no stinking content.

[stillsostrange]

I'm trying to gussy up my website a little, on the off chance people start looking at it come publication time. Eventually I'll have extras and deleted scenes up, and some of my artwork and maybe even a shiny animated gif. I could put a few blurbs up now. What do you think? What do you guys like to see on authors' websites, especially when it comes to novels?

Comments

[pnkrokhockeymom.livejournal.com]

I *really* like extras and deleted scenes!!

[feed-your-muse.livejournal.com]

Seconded.

Also, cover art / exctracts are good too. (And fonts that aren't reeeeeeeally *small*) :-)


Merry

[feed-your-muse.livejournal.com]

Extracts, even. Gah! You can tell it's nearly the end of the day.

Merry

[csinman.livejournal.com]

If you want desktop wallpapers, let me know. ;)

[stillsostrange.livejournal.com]

If I had any money right now, I'd be pestering you for artwork.

[csinman.livejournal.com]

That's not how it works, haha. I'll e-mail you.

[merriehaskell.livejournal.com]

I almost hate to admit this, but I like the extras on Stephenie Meyer's site: her writing playlists for each novel, and random photo references (cacti for a story that had a lot of desert scenes, cars for the Twilight books).

[dorfird.livejournal.com]

I like the sorts of charts & notes that an author uses when writing. I'm thinking here of Sarah Monette's map of Melusine (http://www.sarahmonette.com/melusine-map.html). But family trees, notes on calendrical system or historal timeline, etc. are also of interest. Links to spoilers should be clearly marked.

Sample passages of the novels are also good - especially if your publisher doesn't set it up with Amazon to "search inside the book".

[thefrogg.livejournal.com]

I would like to see what your personal favorite lines/paragraphs from the book are, perhaps as easter eggs (as epigraphs, but in fonts the same color as the background maybe? maybe as rollovers?).

The "Comment with a story I've written, and I will tell you one thing I knew, learned, or wondered about while writing the story that didn't make it onto the page." meme. But without the comments.