Author Websites
Every reader who hears about your book ends up doing the same thing, searching your name. What they find next decides a lot. A professional author website turns that search into something useful: a place that introduces you, sells your books, captures email signups, and gives press, readers, and event organisers a single trusted home for everything you do.
At UK Publishing House, we build author websites for writers across every genre and stage of career. Fiction debutants, memoir authors, business and self-help writers, children’s illustrators, academic authors. Each site is designed around your books, your readers, and what you actually want the site to do, not a generic template with your photo dropped in.
Social media accounts can be suspended overnight. Retailer pages can change their layout without warning. Algorithms shift. Audiences move from one platform to the next every couple of years. Through all of that, your author website is the one piece of online real estate that stays yours, where you control the content, the mailing list, and how readers find their way to your books.
A good author website does three things at once. It introduces you in a way that builds trust before a reader buys. It directs that reader to wherever your book is sold, with the friction removed. And it captures their email so you can reach them again when book two launches, when an event goes live, or when there’s something else worth telling them.
We design every site around those three jobs and the specific kind of author you are. A literary fiction site looks and reads differently to a business book platform or a children’s author site. Genre, audience, and intent shape every decision.
- Designed around your books, your genre, and your readers
- Newsletter signup, direct sales, press kit, and book pages built in
- Mobile-first, fast loading, and properly optimised for search
Featured Catalogue
A selection from the 2,500+ titles we’ve published since 2015 — across fiction, memoir, business, children’s, poetry and more. Tap any cover to view it on Amazon.
Publishing Services
What’s Included in Our
Author Website Service
An author website is more than a homepage. Here are the layers we build, from custom design through to ongoing SEO and direct sales setup.
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Custom Author Website Design
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Book Landing Pages
Once the manuscript review is done, we move into editing. Depending on what your book needs, that could mean developmental editing to fix structural issues, line editing to sharpen the prose, or copy editing to sort grammar, consistency, and British English standards throughout. Every manuscript gets a final proofread before anything goes to print or upload. Nothing leaves us with errors we could have caught.
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Author Blog & Content Setup
Formatting is one of the most overlooked parts of publishing and one of the most important. A poorly formatted book, wrong margins, inconsistent fonts, bad paragraph spacing, tells a reader something is off before they’ve read a single sentence. We format for paperback, hardback, eBook, and audiobook, ensuring every version meets the technical requirements of each platform and looks exactly as a professionally published book should.
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Mailing List & Newsletter Setup
Everything starts with a conversation. Before anything else, we get on a call, understand your book, your goals, and what stage you’re at. From there, we do a full manuscript review, assessing structure, readability, and what the book needs before it moves into production. This isn’t a tick-box exercise. It’s where we work out the right path forward for your specific project.
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E-Commerce for Direct Book Sales
Once the manuscript review is done, we move into editing. Depending on what your book needs, that could mean developmental editing to fix structural issues, line editing to sharpen the prose, or copy editing to sort grammar, consistency, and British English standards throughout. Every manuscript gets a final proofread before anything goes to print or upload. Nothing leaves us with errors we could have caught.
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SEO & Ongoing Support
Getting your book in front of the right readers doesn’t happen on its own. Once your book is live, our marketing services cover launch planning, author branding, online listings optimisation, and targeted campaigns across digital platforms. We build visibility strategies around your genre and your audience, not generic templates applied to every title.
Top Categories
Our Books In
From debut fiction to academic monographs, our editors know the conventions, audience expectations and publishing logic of every category below.
Fiction
- Literary Fiction & Contemporary Novels
- Romance & Romantic Suspense
- Mystery, Thriller & Crime Fiction
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Historical Fiction
- Horror & Supernatural
- Young Adult (YA) & New Adult
- Children’s Books & Middle Grade
Non-Fiction
- Business & Entrepreneurship
- Self-Help & Personal Development
- Memoirs & Autobiographies
- Health, Wellness & Fitness
- Cookbooks & Food Writing
- Travel & Adventure
- Religion & Spirituality
- True Crime
Specialised Categories
- Academic & Educational Textbooks
- Poetry Collections
- Biography & History
- Science & Technology
- Parenting & Family
- Art & Photography Books
- How-To Guides & Instructional Manuals
- Professional & Career Development