WordPress

Here at Clockpunk Studios, we primarily build our websites using custom-designed templates on the WordPress platform. So the question is bound to come up from time to time: Why use WordPress, when there are so many other content management systems available to authors, publishers, and web designers when it comes to building websites? At Clockpunk Studios, we love WordPress, and […]

Here at Clockpunk Studios we’re big fans of WordPress. That may not come as much of a surprise, since we use it to power most of the websites that we build. It seems that we’re not the only ones who like WordPress, though. In fact, WordPress currently powers more than 25% of the Internet! Not just blogs or author websites–the

We’ve talked before about self-promotion, especially in this social media-saturated age, but there’s one thing that can be easy to forget in all the talk about building a brand and cultivating an online presence. While just hammering people to buy your book is never going to work, at the end of the day, all self-promotion ultimately has that very goal

Every year has its ups and downs, and sometimes the ups outnumber the downs. 2015 was a year with a lot of ups and downs, but it was a good year for us here at Clockpunk Studios. Besides setting into motion some plans for the future, and of course continuing our goal to provide the best maintenance and site care

2015 is coming to an end, and we still don’t have hoverboards, flying cars, or Jaws 19. But in spite of those disappointments, 2015 has been a pretty good year for us here at Clockpunk Studios. We’ve launched new author websites that we’re very proud of, members of our staff have celebrated the releases of new books (Vermillion and The

Hey there, Clockpunk Studios readers… Orrin here! I write blog entries (like this one) and handle some of the social media stuff for Clockpunk Studios, including maintaining our Facebook and Twitter accounts. I’m also a freelance writer, and when I’m not composing blog posts, websites, and lengthy rants about monster movies, I write stories about ghosts, monsters, and sometimes the

Clockpunk Studios is owned and staffed by writers—that’s why we’re so good at what we do. We know the writer lifestyle intimately, whether it’s the long hours you spend typing, the uncertainty you feel over self-promotion, the ways you use your blog vs. your social media. We even know all about cons. For example, this past weekend two of our

Good writers are also voracious readers and loyal fans. We all have our own favorite authors, those people whose work inspires us to be better. So we all know the importance of finding an audience, not just from the writer’s side of the equation, but from the reader’s side, too. How often have you stumbled upon an amazing new writer

  In our previous installment on finding an audience, I talked about the importance of author websites, and I mentioned a thread on social media where Laird Barron underscored their necessity. In the comments that followed that thread, several people weighed in who seemed to believe that author websites were somehow “outdated” or “unnecessary” in this day and age. A