I have counters on the index (home) pages of my web sites (and even on this blog). That way I can see how many people come to visit on a daily/weekly basis.
It's no surprise that my Lorna web site gets the most hits, and it's pretty steady. (That's unique visitors.) I sure wish it was more, but I'll take what I can get.
Unfortunately, my other two personas don't get those kinds of hits. It's discouraging to me, because I've been shouting from any rooftop I can find that I'm writing under three names. Lorraine's site is doing eh-okay. L.L.'s site ... you don't want to know. This pie chart isn't accurate, but it's not too far off, either.
This is rather discouraging. Especially since Lorraine has a new book coming out Februray 7th.
I put my web site address on all my promotional material. I list them in the acknowledgments in all my books. I would expect that more people would seek the sites out.
Do you think the golden age of web sites is over? What do you like to see in an author's website?
(Just in case you want to visit my websites to compare them, you can find them by clicking my various names: Lorna ~ Lorraine ~ L.L. )
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I've often wondered why authors choose to write under so many pseudonyms. When I find an author I love to read, I'll tend to read everything they've written or will write in the future. I love the Booktown series as many obviously do. I would be more apt to read your other series if they too were written by Lorna. Just psychological I guess!
ReplyDeleteBecky, my (third) agent suggested I write the Resnick books (which are psychological suspense) under initials because she felt (and so do a lot of others) that men won't buy a book written by a woman. When I landed the booktown series, my publisher stipulated that I take a pseudonym. (Cozies are quite different from psychological suspense.) By the time my publisher bought the Victoria Square mysteries, I was pretty tired of hiding out under different names. I wanted people to know that I, Lorraine Bartlett, wrote those books.
ReplyDeleteLots of times authors are forced to take pseudonyms--and quite often we just have no choice.