Social media accounts get restricted without notice. Retailer pages change their layout and rules without asking you. Algorithms shift and the audience you built on one platform quietly disappears over the course of a year. Through all of that your author website remains the one piece of online presence you control completely. The content, the design, the mailing list and the way readers find their way to your books are all yours and nobody can take that away.

A well-built author website does three things simultaneously. It introduces you in a way that earns a reader’s trust before they have committed to buying. It removes every possible obstacle between a visitor and a purchase. And it gives people a way to stay connected so that when your next book launches you already have an audience ready to hear about it. These things do not happen automatically. They are the result of deliberate design decisions made by people who understand both the publishing world and how readers actually behave online.

We design every author website around the specific kind of author you are and the specific readers you are trying to reach. A literary fiction site communicates differently to a business platform or a children’s author site. Genre, audience, intent and the commercial goals of the site shape every decision we make from the first wireframe to the final page.