There are so many great book marketing websites out there to explore on the internet. It’s a wondrous and seemingly inexhaustible resource. It doesn’t matter how old you are, or where your interest’s lie, if you have a computer with an internet hookup and you know how to type you can spend hours and hours of fun time exploring. Sometimes I think that maybe it’s too addictive because in the past I sat down for what I thought would be an hour and I would get caught up searching for too many hours. Maybe most people aren’t as obsessive as I am. But it’s crazy how much you can find. For example once I went online hoping to find information about Chinese herbalism and I found so many wonderful sites that I couldn’t believe it. I marked them all as favorites so I could go back to them later.
I like to look at writing websites on a regular basis. You can look at so many different types of writing for fun, or you can find works of beauty by published and otherwise unpublished authors alike. A friend of mine and I were bored at work once so we downloaded erotic poetry off the internet and then we made the voice that is part of the Simple Text program read it back to us. This was a hilarious exercise. We enjoyed it so much that we did it quite a bit for a couple of months. There were hilarious examples of bad poetry on some of the writing websites, but there is a lot of truly good writing out there to look at too.
The array of information that people have put on the internet over the last ten years really impresses me. When it was a newer enterprise I had a job for a children’s software company and for a little while they linked up with schools to teach children how to use the internet to do searches on topics such as politics or botany. It was my job to take the material provided to the schools by my company and do internet searches on them first. This was to make sure that the kids wouldn’t come upon sites with adult content or otherwise inappropriate sites randomly. At that time the internet was much more open ended. It’s more recent that people earn money via their websites. At that point there were adult sites that earned money for sure but more often there were just amazing amounts of interesting information to find. This is still true; you just need to look a little harder now maybe.
