For authors & independent publishers

Your books deserve
somewhere better than a link in bio.

A custom author website built to sell books: one home for the whole series, a free chapter that converts, buy links to every retailer, and a mailing list that grows while you write the next one.

See the work

Domain, hosting and deployment included. No monthly retainer.

The work

Author sites we've built.

One fictional demo, and three concepts we built for real authors before they ever hired us — a debut romance launch, a crime series, and a non-fiction author with two audiences. Click any one to open it.

marlowequinn.com
Marlowe Quinn author website demo
Marlowe Quinn
Crime series · fictional author, full demo
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Demo
jadejack.co.uk
Jade Jack book launch concept
Jade Jack — Kiss Me Down Under
Debut romance · launch night, Glasgow
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Concept · unsolicited
lamontebooks.com
L. A. Mont'e crime series concept
L. A. Mont'e — Misty's Story
Crime thriller · four-book series
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Concept · unsolicited
drjohnlundell.com
Dr John Lundell author and coaching concept
John C. Lundell, MD
Non-fiction · books + coaching, 5 pages
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Concept · unsolicited

The three concepts are unsolicited design studies, not commissioned work. They are not affiliated with or endorsed by the authors, and each carries that notice on the page. We build one for free for any author who asks — including you.

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The usual state of things

Most author sites quietly lose readers

Not because they are ugly. Because of small, fixable things that nobody ever tells the author about.

The link in bio expires

An Eventbrite page or a retailer link is not a home. After launch night there is nowhere for a reader to land.

Pages that go nowhere

A “free chapter” link that serves the homepage, a shop with no products. They return 200, so nothing looks broken.

Buy links to one retailer

The book is on Amazon, Kobo, Barnes & Noble and Apple. The site sends everyone to whichever one the author remembered.

A series that reads as a pile

No Book One, no Book Two, no reading order. New readers cannot tell where to start, so they don't.

Reviews sitting on Goodreads

Real praise from real readers, doing nothing on someone else's website instead of the author's own.

No list, no next launch

Every launch starts from zero, because nobody captured an email address at the last one.

What you get

Built around the book, not the CV

A page per book, and a series that makes sense

Reading order, editions, what's out and what's coming. Every book gets its own page so search engines have something to rank other than your name.

A free-chapter funnel that works

The highest-converting page an author can have. Read it on the page, or trade an email for it — your call. Buy links at the bottom.

Buy links to every retailer

Amazon, Kindle, Kobo, Apple Books, Barnes & Noble, IngramSpark, your own signed copies. Readers buy where they already have an account.

Your reviews, on your own site

Real quotes from Amazon and Goodreads, with names and dates, marked up so Google can show the stars.

Newsletter capture that actually delivers

Connected to a real mailing list, with the free chapter sent automatically. Your next launch starts with an audience.

Launch and event pages

Signings, festivals, launch nights — with tickets, venue and date marked up so they show properly in search and on social.

SEO pointed at the book

Title tags, meta, Book and Event schema, sitemap. Aimed at the genre and the title, not just your name.

Fast, and yours

Hand-built, no page-builder bloat, loads instantly on a phone. On your own domain, with domain, hosting and deployment handled.

Twelve months of changes included

New book, new review, new event, new cover — email it over and it's live the same day. No dashboard to learn, no subscription. Most authors publish once or twice a year; you get a person who answers instead of software you have to fight.

How it works

Four steps, no surprises

  1. Step one

    A free concept

    We build a page for your actual book, with your covers and your words, before you pay anything. You see it, then decide.

  2. Step two

    Your words in it

    Blurbs, chapter one, reviews, events, retailer links. You send what you have; we write around the gaps.

  3. Step three

    Live on your domain

    Domain, hosting, deployment, redirects from the old site so nothing you've already earned in search is lost.

  4. Step four

    A year of changes

    Email the change, it's live the same day. New book, new review, new date — included for twelve months.

Who it's for

Mostly people mid-series

Debut authors with a launch coming

You need somewhere permanent before launch night, not after. A page that sells tickets now and books forever.

Series authors on book two or three

The moment reading order starts costing you sales. Best time to fix it is before the next one lands.

Self-published authors on a page builder

Wix, GoDaddy, Squarespace. It works, roughly, and you have stopped touching it because every change is a fight.

Non-fiction and textbook authors

Bulk orders for schools and programmes, editions, speaking enquiries. A different set of buttons, same idea.

FAQ

The usual questions

How do I update it once it's live?

You email the change and it's live the same day, included for twelve months. There's no dashboard, which is the trade: no software to learn, but you're relying on a person. Most authors publish once or twice a year, so the volume is small. If you'd rather log in and edit it yourself, say so and we'll build it on a lightweight CMS instead.

I already have a website. Do I lose my search rankings?

No. We map every existing URL to its new home and set up redirects before switching over, so anything already ranking keeps working.

Can you sell books directly from the site?

Yes — signed copies and direct sales can run through Stripe or Shopify. For most authors, though, sending readers to retailers converts better and is far less admin. We'll tell you honestly which one suits your setup.

What do you need from me?

Cover images, blurbs, your retailer links, chapter one if you want the free-chapter page, and any reviews you're proud of. If some of that doesn't exist yet, we build the space for it and fill it in later.

Do you write the copy?

We use your words wherever they exist — your blurb, your bio, your reviews. Where there's a gap we draft something and you approve it. You're the writer; we're not going to talk over you.

How long does it take?

The free concept is usually a day or two. A full site is about a week once we have your material. If you have a launch date, tell us and we'll work to it.

Send us your book

Tell us the title and where it's on sale. We'll build a concept page for it and send you the link. If you like it we'll finish it; if not, keep it anyway.

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