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The first website I remember visiting.
I started visiting websites over the university years, so I’m sure it was something about ancient laws or the Roman Empire (yes, I had to study those. So useful n today’s world.) (I loved it….) or some other along those lines.
So, I’ll tell you the first website I remember visiting for books, and that was Stephenie Meyer’s website.
It run the year 2007 (maybe 2008) and we had moved to the UK long enough that I could start reading a novel in English, but not long enough that I could read said novel without a dictionary, and it would take me forever.
Enter Twilight book, one I took from the local library because it seemed less intimidating.
I fell in love with that book and with the series. I also fallout of love with it when it began to turn silly, with sides and teams and seriously. At that point I was out.
But I was able to read those books while in love, and it was amazing.
It dawned on me I could see who wrote those stories, I went to her website, an…. wow.
I was in an author’s website for the first time my life.
I went through very page and every article, soaking up in stories about my currently favorite books and people. I can still remember how it looked, and I was obsessed with it for weeks.
So, this is my story, what’s yours?
MacKade 
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I love that ability to get to know an author through the internet. I genuinely don’t understand why authors don’t have websites these days. Good memory!!
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Right???
Thank you for coming by!
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Author websites have always been a great way to connect with your favourites. The’re a great source of info!
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Yes, especially when you want to know when their latest book is going to release!
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Just realised I used ‘their’ instead of ‘they’re’ and it wouldn’t allow me to correct it. It would bug me forever if I didn’t correct it somewhere! 🤣🤣
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I got you, I was able to fix it! I understand the bugging so hard….
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I love getting to know authors through their websites and various interviews. I have some of my favorite authors bookmarked. What a wonderful memory.
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Me too, and I “use” them like a newspaper. Let’s see what they are up to 😀
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That is the greatest aspect of the web. I enjoyed being on fb with Anne Rice.
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Wow, Ann Rice! So cool!
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Yes, the ability to connect directly with an author and their work like that is absolutely amazing. Several of the ones I follow have truly amazing communities built around their sites.
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One of my first would have been scholastic.com, because at the time (1999) I was REALLY into Animorphs by K.A. Applegate, and I wanted to read more about the characters and the show that they were making. Some authors do maintain really good websites….Christopher L Bennett, for instance, has annotations for most of his books that give background info!
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