Best/Worst Author websites

[henrietta]

I'm tickled to find that some of my favorite writers have their own websites, but while some are great, some are stiff, overly commercial productions, as if the publisher's prodding them in the back and muttering "you can fit another link to Amazon in that space there."

Worst
Kris Nelscott/Kristine Kathryn Rusch/Kristine Grayson
http://www.kristinekathrynrusch.com/
Impersonal, boring and as guarded as a pit bull. Total sales/promo site for her work.

Best
Andrew Vachss
www.vachss.com
A ton of information, and hysterically in tune with the books he writes - dark, dark, dark.

Barbara Hambly
http://www.barbarahambly.com/
Very personal, with entries and chatty explanations of various books, series and plans for the future.

Hard To Tell
Craig Clevenger
http://www.craigclevenger.com/
Badly chosen font colors make it nearly invisible.


The above are personal websites, not affiliated with their publishers. Publisher websites, of course, are largely sales/PR material.

 

[steffee]

Wow, thanks for sharing that list.

 

[Doug Johnson]

I didn't like any of your links.

Some writers do their web site themselves, even though they know nothing about graphic design. Others spend a lot of money on this web designers who've never read their books.

 

[jaynebosco]

Tracy Chevalier has an excellent site. Not only has the books that she has published (with a bunch of information about them including the inspiration for each of her published novels, but it also has what she is currently working on and what books she has read for each month since March 2002. It also has a biography of her and some other stuff. Enjoy

 

[SFG75]

Love him or hate him, you have to admit that Dan Brown has a good site.