Forget the act of writing, the pressure to create a web presence is becoming almost as intense for many authors. Jeff Barr, of Book Design blog fame, has launched a new website, Books Written By, which features authors and their websites. Each entry provides a screenshot of the author’s homepage with a link to their site.
The gallery gives us a glimpse into the wild west of website design and authors and seems poised to become a valuable resource for what to and what not to do when developing one’s literary website. They make “no attempt to rate the quality of the sites” and hope that “authors and designers can use this gallery to gain inspiration for their own sites. And everyone just might discover some interesting writers.”