Making a Good First Impression “You never get a second chance to make a first impression.” It’s something your parents told you when you were young, it was likely hammered in to you during high school, and again when you began looking for your first post-college job. It’s no secret that humans are subject to irrational prejudice, and when you […]

Social media can be a lot of things to a lot of people—a fun distraction from work, a source of frustration when one’s relatives constantly post inspirational or political memes, a way to stay connected… but for authors, it’s also a powerful marketing tool. Most authors will tell you that marketing is one of the most uncertain and most difficult

Maybe you’re tired of making do with a standard WordPress blog, or maybe you have your own domain, but your current site is out of date. Perhaps you just made your first pro sale, landed an agent, or signed your first book contract with a publisher. Regardless, you know it’s time—maybe past time—to upgrade to a modern WordPress site… but there’s

Okay, so you’ve started building your online presence. You’ve got an author page on Facebook, you’ve got a Twitter account, you’ve posted the covers of your books onto Pinterest, you’ve got an Instagram where you post pictures of your cat. You’ve even got a website, and you’re updating your blog a couple of times a month. Sounds like you’re off

  Here at Clockpunk Studios, we got our start designing and building beautiful, functional websites for authors, and that’s still our focus. Why authors? Lots of reasons. For one, here at Clockpunk Studios, we are authors. Our founder and primary web designer Jeremiah Tolbert has had stories in Lightspeed, Fantasy, Interzone, Asimov’s, and more. Molly Tanzer’s first novel Vermilion just

Hi Clockpunk Studios readers… Molly here. I’ve been working for Jeremy for I think about three years now. I’m his Administrative Overlord, which means I handle some of the more random tasks associated with running a web design studio. I also help with some back-end WordPress stuff, and I (obviously) blog. Oh, and I work for The Big Click, the crime

Just about everyone would like to make a few extra bucks, and authors would always like to sell more books. Luckily, there’s an easy and painless way for our author clients here at Clockpunk Studios to do both at the same time! If you’re a veteran of the Internet, then chances are you’re already at least passingly familiar with affiliate programs,

Many of our clients already have some sort of website when they come to us. Sometimes it’s an older, out-of-date site that needs an upgrade; in other instances, it’s just a simple WordPress, Blogger, Livejournal, or other sort of blog without its own domain. Yet other clients have no web presence at all when they ring us up, and that’s

Here at Clockpunk Studios, we’ve been building websites for a long time, and we know of a lot of ways to do it. These days we primarily use custom WordPress themes to build websites for our clients, so obviously we think WordPress is pretty great. But like any system—especially one as big as WordPress has become in the almost 12