Your Author Website
The Hub for Your
Books, Brand, and Community

One book, everything a reader needs to decide, and none of your other titles competing for attention. The cover at a readable size, the description, an excerpt or opening pages, review quotes, the formats available, and purchase links for every retailer that stocks it. For a series, the reading order and where this title sits in it. For an upcoming book, the release date and a preorder link.

Because you do not own the social platforms. Reach, rules and the account itself can change without warning, and a following built there cannot be exported. A website is yours, it can be found on its own, and it turns a visitor into an email address you keep. It is also where journalists, festival organizers and rights buyers go looking for a bio, a photo and a way to contact you.

Most authors who try it end up with a template that looks like every other template, and they spend writing hours on plugins, hosting and updates instead. A built site is designed to your own brand, carries a landing page for each book with working retailer links, connects your mailing list, and is tested across phones, tablets and browsers before launch. It is then maintained, so security updates stop being your problem.

No. Content integration is part of the build. You supply the raw material, your bio facts, book descriptions, covers, retailer links, review quotes, an author photo and any press coverage, and the copy is written and placed around the site structure. If a book description or an author bio needs writing from scratch, it is drafted for your approval rather than left as an empty box for you to fill.

Software and security updates, backups, uptime checks, broken link checks, and fixing whatever breaks after a platform update. It also covers the content work a live author site keeps needing, adding a new book page, updating retailer links, posting events, refreshing the bio and photo. Sites left alone quietly break, usually at the retailer links, and that is the one part that costs you sales.

Page count drives it most, and giving every book its own landing page is where that number grows. A one book site is a small build. Custom illustration, animation, direct ecommerce and member areas all add work. Reusing what you already own, your cover art, existing photography and written book descriptions, costs less than commissioning new material. Structural changes requested after design approval add most of all.

Ask to see live author sites they have built, then open those sites on a phone. Ask who owns the domain, the hosting and the files, and confirm the answer is you. Ask what happens when you publish your next book, whether you can add it or must pay for every change. Ask what maintenance covers. Author website design services differ most on ownership and on life after launch.