Selling yourself is a big part of being a writer. Successfully promoting books goes far beyond online book-selling pages and an author website is an excellent way to build your brand as an author and finding new audiences. Your website needn't be flashy, but it should have clear navigation and be rich in useful content. You want to draw visitors in and increase selling opportunities.
Our domain name is provided by (and our website are powered by) Webcity Australia, which provides powerful tools for managing your website and add-on functions (such as blogging capabilities) for your website.
Remember to investigate a number of domain name registration providers and web hosting providers to get the best deal and make sure you obtain your domain name from a domain name registrar accredited by ICANN or by your country’s top–level domain management authority to ensure you get a valid domain name.
A weblog is as great way to keep readers informed about anything and everything relating to your book. If you don't already keep a blog, start now! Your blog is the place to tell readers about things like book giveaways or special offers, upcoming signings and tours, or to give details and display photos of past events. Many websites allow integration of your blog into your website (as does ours), but if not, provide a link to the blog and update frequently.
Our blog is an add-on to our website and is powered by Wordpress, which is a a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time. More simply, WordPress is what you use when you want to work with your blogging software, not fight it. Wordpress has numerous themes and styles for customising your blog.
WordPress has two sites to manage blogs: WordPress.org and WordPress.com. WordPress.org provides a free blogging capability and can integrate into your existing website. WordPress.com also provides a free blogging capability and, for a fee, can also give you a domain name and a website if you don't already have one. 
