A shorter name and address: Stead
As of today, writerstead.comhttps://writerstead.com is now stead.pagehttps://stead.page, a shorter, cleaner address for authors and writers who need a simple website. Old links re…
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View all articles →How to Build an Author Website Before Your First Book Is Published
This article is for those of you who are serious about your writing but haven't published your first book yet. Do You Even Need a Website? If you've chosen to take your book writi…
Read piece →Keep on Writing
Sometimes a couple of weeks pass, or a couple of months or years, and you realize you haven't been writing at all. It's especially hard when you just announced that you were plann…
Read piece →The Hardest Step as a Writer
If you're a writer with a half-finished manuscript, or a finished one that no one has ever seen: this one's for you. Maybe you published a book that quietly went up on Amazon and…
Read piece →The Author Website Trap: Why Selling 75,000 Books Didn't Cure My Imposter Syndrome
AKA what technical writing taught me about selling fiction, and why I’m getting ready to start my web presence over again from scratch. Every day, I set a goal to write a new arti…
Read piece →Growing the Stead Theme Library: From One Theme to Three, and Beyond
Today marks a special milestone for Stead. What began as a focused, single-theme platform has now blossomed into a curated collection of three distinct design options, each tailor…
Read piece →Temporary technical difficulties
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Read piece →When a reader searches for you.
A reader who has just heard about a writer should be able to find the book, understand the work, and choose a reason to return.
Read piece →One day, kept.
A travel journal keeps a day for its writer. Publishing one chosen entry can let that day keep someone else company too.
Read piece →The freedom to connect.
Stead is being built around a writer’s own website, mailing list, and choice of tools. The connections belong to the writer too.
Read piece →Two layers down.
The most absorbing part of a joyful Sunday in Hội An was a foundation beneath Stead that almost nobody will ever see.
Read piece →Building Stead in public.
Why Stead is becoming a lasting home for independent writers, and why the work is being written about while it is still taking shape.
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