As I start to flesh this out, I am finding so many problems and options for solving them. Blogger is a great place--one that I'm familiar with--for, well, writing a blog. But this author platform needs to be so much more. I am probably going to need many if not all of the following:
- A real web address that is not linked to the tool. It looks like blogger can support that naturally, but I still need to buy the domain.
- A mail list manager, like MailChimp. Blogger has no natural way to do this, but it looks like I can embed HTML into it to make that work.
- Expandable ways to add more books, stories and other tabs to the author site. That top tab has already filled up for me. I think I can contort Blogger to do that for me, but it is not natural set up to do that. Something like SquareSpace would be a good fit.
- A way to sell things directly including taking money, delivering, and even giving refunds. Like with mail list management, Blogger doesn't do this naturally, but I could shoehorn something into it.
- A good way to contact me that doesn't expose my personal email to the world. I suspect I can get that with the real web address and a forwarding service, but I have more research to do there.
- Ideally a way to manage beta reader, although that might be a mix of a special mail list and sales at zero cost. I've got more to think about there.
It is looking likely that Blogger won't be the most natural platform for me to grow with, but it will serve for now.
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