Author Website Design
An Author Website
Worth Remembering.
We design elegant, high-performing websites that showcase your books, strengthen your author brand and give readers a reason to stay.
The case
Why every author
needs a home.
A retailer listing sells a book. A social account rents attention. Neither builds the one thing a long career depends on — an audience you can reach directly.
The authors whose careers survive a bad launch, a lost publisher or a platform collapse are the ones who spent five years quietly collecting readers at an address they own.
01
Amazon owns the reader, not you.
Every sale on a retailer page hands the relationship to the retailer. The reader who finished your book at 2 a.m. has nowhere to go and no way to be found again.
02
Social platforms rent you an audience.
Reach is throttled, algorithms turn, and accounts vanish overnight. A following you cannot export is a following you do not own.
03
A website compounds for a decade.
One address that collects subscribers, press, reviews and pre-orders while you write the next book. It appreciates. Everything else resets.
Before / After
The same author.
A different career.
Drag the handle. Left is the site readers found for eleven years. Right is what replaced it — and what happened in the ninety days after launch.
BeforeTime on page
Newsletter growth
Mobile experience
Visual quality
Premium features
Everything a career needs.
Nothing it does not.
Responsive Design
Composed at every width, not squeezed. Sixty-eight percent of your readers arrive on a phone at night.
Book Showcase
Every title as an object: cover, excerpt, praise, retailers, series order.
Newsletter Integration
Reader magnet delivery, tagged signups, and a list you own — wired to your provider.
Media Kit
Press-ready bios, high-res portraits, cover files and one shareable link.
Events Calendar
Signings, festivals and launches with reminders and map links.
Blog & Journal
A writing space that reads like a magazine column, not a CMS default.
Press Features
Reviews and coverage arranged as a wall of quiet proof.
Reader Reviews
Verified reader praise pulled forward where it changes minds.
SEO Optimized
Structured data, clean semantics and titles that win your own name.
Contact Forms
Separate routes for readers, media and rights enquiries — spam-filtered, straight to your inbox.
Website gallery
Recently launched.
The design process
Seven weeks,
seven movements.
- 01
Discovery
We read the books. We learn who the reader is, what the next three years look like, and what the site has to carry.
- 02
Strategy
Sitemap, content plan and the single job of every page. Nothing gets designed before it has a purpose.
- 03
Wireframes
Structure in greyscale — hierarchy, reading rhythm, mobile first. Approved before a colour exists.
- 04
Visual Design
Typography, palette and motion drawn from your genre. Two directions, one chosen, refined to the pixel.
- 05
Development
Hand-built, no page builders. Accessible markup, image pipelines, a CMS you can actually edit.
- 06
Testing
Every browser, every breakpoint, screen readers, Lighthouse. We break it before readers can.
- 07
Launch
DNS, analytics, newsletter handoff and a walkthrough recording. Thirty days of aftercare included.
Authors, after launch
What changed for them.
“My old site was a placeholder I apologised for. The new one is the first thing I send anyone — agents, festivals, readers. It reads like the books do.”
The Salt Archive
“Four hundred subscribers a month from a site that used to collect nine. That list sold out my third print run before the publisher's campaign started.”
Nightfall County
“They asked better questions than my publisher did. The design came out of the manuscript, not a template folder. Every detail was argued for.”
A Quiet Hour
Questions
Before we
begin.
Every build ships with its Lighthouse report.
Three website builds per quarter