A history of publications is just the beginning. Every published writer should have a Web site that has a wide variety of information and details about the writer. Readers who arrive at a writer's Web site are there because they want to know more about the writer. They want to read more from the writer. They want to know the writer on a more personal level and experience things the writer experiences.

Keep Your Web Site Simple

There's no need to hire a professional Web site designer to put together something that looks like it belongs on the official Transformers homepage. Stephen King's Web site would be too hard for a single writer to maintain. Ethan Rutherford's site is a much better example of how a simple Web site can still be appealing. Buy a domain name and use a simple html formatting program that makes it easy to format text, insert pictures and create simple hyperlinks.