mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06🎨 UX Designer at @OddBird@front-end.social
📚 MG & PB writer
🥁 Drummer for Teacup Gorilla
(she/they)
Hi, #writing friends!
Sometimes updating (or creating) your author website can make you feel like curling up in bed for a week with a book and hot cup of tea!
So I wrote a course (based on working 20 years as a web designer by day) to help you all make your author websites more intuitive and engaging: https://sondraeby.com/author-website/
I'd like to use my 11+ years of web design experience to write a free email course to help fellow #kidlit authors get the most out of your author website.
What topics would be most useful?
- Design new site
- Improve existing site
- Accessibility
- Content strategy
- Landing page design
- Something else?
My band, Teacup Gorilla has a new single out today! This first single from our upcoming Jane/Eyre album is named after the book young Jane reads at the start of Charlotte Brontë’s novel, and our stage adaptation with Grapefruit Lab.
3 days left to apply for the RMC SCBWI Mentorship Program!
I've been a mentee for the past two years, and learned so much! 😍 I'm so excited to be back as a mentor this year.
There are mentors for picture books through young adult for writers and illustrators.