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Here at Clockpunk Studios, we primarily use custom WordPress themes to build one-of-a-kind websites for our author, editor, publisher, and other business clients. And it looks like we’re not alone. As of 2015, WordPress powered fully 25% of the Internet. That’s a lot of websites! That’s according to data taken from WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg’s 10th Annual State of the […]
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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
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Are you one of the more than 300,000 people who participated in National Novel Writing Month in November? If so, you may now have more than 50,000 words of novel that you didn’t have before. So the question becomes: what next? Fortunately, the official NaNoWriMo website provides a variety of resources for helping new novelists through what they call the
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Here at Clockpunk Studios, author websites are what we do. While we also do websites for publishers, magazines, and other businesses, we got our start building author websites, and—as authors ourselves—author websites remain our passion. That’s why we try to make sure that every author website we build is tailored to the needs of the author, and designed to help
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While it’s a hugely popular pastime for a lot of writers in November, National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo for short, often gets a bad rap. Some people consider it “amateur hour,” while others bemoan an exercise that seems to prize quantity over quality. For NaNoWriMo devotees, though, these arguments miss the point completely. NaNoWriMo is about getting the work
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Different people come to of writing for very different reasons, but there’s one thing that just about every writer wants: more books. No wait, maybe more time to read them? No, wait, I meant to say that every writer wants another cat. Wait, no, that’s not it either. Hm… oh, right, true as some of those might be, what I
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