How to prevent empty page after \maketitle?

Question

I have a few pages that I've texed. I wanted to start the document with a title page but if I do that it produces an empty page numbered '1' between the title page and the first section. How to prevent that? I tried document classes report, article and book, \maketitle as well as \begin{titlepage}/ \end{titlepage}. The code looks like this:

\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\begin{document}
\textwidth 13cm
\title{Author: My title}
\author{a. name}
\maketitle
\hfill
\chapter{Chapter title}
\section{section title}
\end{document}

Thanks for your help.

Answer 1

Remove \hfill.

\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\begin{document}
\textwidth 13cm
\title{Author: My title}
\author{a. name}
\maketitle
% \hfill
\chapter{Chapter title}
\section{section title}
\end{document}

EDIT: If you also want to align the title near the top of the page, follow Marco Daniel's advice and use the notitlepage class option. (You may still remove \hfill in that case.) Note that the page containing the title will be numbered as "1", and the first chapter will start at page 2.