Hey everyone, long time no post. As a couple of you may remember from yonks ago I'm an author by trade, and over the last few months I've been putting together a website for my preferred genre Transgressive Fiction. I'll be launching in a couple of weeks, so at this stage haven't publicly shared the link. Right now I pretty much have the site how I want, but there are a few kinks still to be worked out before I reach out to media places to cover the launch.
I thought I'd give you guys a look and see what you thought at this stage. I have a bunch of the authors featured on the site on board now and they'll be contributing stuff and helping promote the launch. We'll be looking to build a real community of readers after the launch and then add a forum on there as well.
My website coding person has recently gone missing leaving something of knowledge vacuum which has put the brakes on a bit, so I'm learning as quick as I can to get it all back up to speed again. Anyway, any tips for this or anything I've clearly done wrong, or tech type advice at all much appreciated.
https://transgressivefiction.info
https://twitter.com/TransgressiveF
https://www.facebook.com/transgressivefiction/
TransgressiveFiction.info
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Website works nicely enough and certainly looks the part albeit a bit slow downloading. I love the gallery of covers with familiar but strange titles. It's like a amnesiac stagger through a half remembered remaindered bookshop where you can't work out what's a classic reprint and what's over-sold but under-bought trash.
In real life I've read a splattering of the books in the the "books" sections but I don't think I'd have drawn the same line through them that you have.
In real life I've read a splattering of the books in the the "books" sections but I don't think I'd have drawn the same line through them that you have.
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Hey Venusian, cheers for the input.
The evolution of Transgressive Fiction has been, I think anyway, so fascinating, and as much as many books fit the albeit loose generalisation more than others, all books in there are relevant to that journey. As many of the authors are dead, and many others are quite reclusive by nature, it has been challenging connecting with them to get behind the project, but up to now I have around fifteen that are thrilled there is finally a central hub for these kind of books. I have big plans post-launch, but for now I'm focussed on getting the site running as well as possible and looking even better.
There should be a new banner video completed by the end of next week and after that I'll begin contacting media outlets for some coverage. Finding decent Wordpress coders seems to be the modern equivalent of waiting for a bus, you wait in vain for email replies and then a bunch turn up together. It's been a real spanner in the works that the developer I was using has vanished, but I'm sure I'll find someone suitable to replace her and work with to get this up to speed.
One thing I'll be looking to add after the launch is a forum, so any advice mods from here may have for that I'm all ears.
The evolution of Transgressive Fiction has been, I think anyway, so fascinating, and as much as many books fit the albeit loose generalisation more than others, all books in there are relevant to that journey. As many of the authors are dead, and many others are quite reclusive by nature, it has been challenging connecting with them to get behind the project, but up to now I have around fifteen that are thrilled there is finally a central hub for these kind of books. I have big plans post-launch, but for now I'm focussed on getting the site running as well as possible and looking even better.
There should be a new banner video completed by the end of next week and after that I'll begin contacting media outlets for some coverage. Finding decent Wordpress coders seems to be the modern equivalent of waiting for a bus, you wait in vain for email replies and then a bunch turn up together. It's been a real spanner in the works that the developer I was using has vanished, but I'm sure I'll find someone suitable to replace her and work with to get this up to speed.
One thing I'll be looking to add after the launch is a forum, so any advice mods from here may have for that I'm all ears.