Everything an author needs, nothing they don’t
The Essential
Author Website
built for your book.
Choose from six ready-made templates and we’ll build your site around your book — the cover and your bio, buy links to every retailer, a look inside the opening pages, a blog you control, and a simple way for readers to reach you. One flat price, live in weeks, with a full year of hosting and upkeep included.
Everything an author needs, nothing they don’t
The Essential
Author Website
built for your book.
Choose from six ready-made templates and we’ll build your site around your book — the cover and your bio, buy links to every retailer, a look inside the opening pages, a blog you control, and a simple way for readers to reach you. One flat price, live in weeks, with a full year of hosting and upkeep included.
One simple package, one flat price
Essential Author Website
$2400
A single-page author website, built for you on one of six ready-made templates
Your book, your bio, retailer buy links, reviews, and a contact form — all in one place
A “Look Inside” preview of your book’s opening pages
A blog on its own page, yours to post to as often as you like
Your own login to the site and the webhost, so your blog is always under your control
Acquisition of an available domain name
Google indexing, plus links to your social accounts and other online profiles
Up to three rounds of text edits, plus a full year of hosting, security, and upkeep
After year one, renew for $800/year and earn another round of text edits — or take full ownership of the site
Six templates to choose from
Pick the design that fits your book and we build your site on it. The layout stays put — over the year it’s your words that change, not the design.
The designs below are sample layouts, shown here using an example book. Your website will be fully designed around your exact book — your cover, your story, your reviews, and your bio.
Album
A memoir photo album — the cover and author photo mounted in corners, handwritten captions, reviews as tucked-in notes.
Commonplace
A reader’s commonplace book — the cover glued in, reviews as clippings, passages on ruled paper, notes in the margin.
Magazine Feature
A bold magazine feature — the title as a huge headline, a drop-cap intro, reviews as pull quotes, and a facts sidebar.
Composition Notebook
A marbled school notebook — the title on the name label, the cover taped inside, text on blue-ruled pages.
Author
A personal, author-first page — opens with your name and photo, then the book, its reviews and the opening below.
Long Read
A compact header over one finely set reading column — the opening typeset like a book page, reviews as margin notes.
How it works
Four steps from sign-up to a finished site — and one simple decision a year later.
Step 1
Let’s Build
We acquire your domain and you pick your template from our six ready-made designs. Send us your cover, bio, buy links, opening pages, and contact details, and we build the site around them.
Step 2
You’re Live
Your site goes live and you receive your own login for both the website and the webhost. We keep everything hosted, updated, and secure — and your blog is yours to post to whenever you like.
Step 3
Thriving on Auto-Pilot
Nothing to maintain, nothing to manage. Your site keeps working for your book, and your three rounds of text edits are there whenever something needs updating.
Step 4
Renew or Take Over
Ahead of your one-year mark, choose your path: renew for $800/year and earn another round of text edits, or decline and take full, independent ownership of the site.
Step 1
Let’s Build
We acquire your domain and you pick your template from our six ready-made designs. Send us your cover, bio, buy links, opening pages, and contact details, and we build the site around them.
Step 2
You’re Live
Your site goes live and you receive your own login for both the website and the webhost. We keep everything hosted, updated, and secure — and your blog is yours to post to whenever you like.
Step 3
Thriving on Auto-Pilot
Nothing to maintain, nothing to manage. Your site keeps working for your book, and your three rounds of text edits are there whenever something needs updating.
Step 4
Renew or Take Over
Ahead of your one-year mark, choose your path: renew for $800/year and earn another round of text edits, or decline and take full, independent ownership of the site.
Trusted technology
for author websites
We will provide you with a straightforward tutorial series that will guide you through the intricacies of the WordPress dashboard and our page-building plugin.
With your new site, and the know-how to operate it, you’ll be able to stay on top of your digital presence, and keep your readers engaged in your content. And with our easy renewal options, you can have us do as much or as little long-term as makes sense for you.
WordPress
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Bluehost
An optimized WordPress host and domain server, supporting more than two million domains
WordPress
The world’s leading website building platform, on which 39% of the world’s top ten million websites are built
Bluehost
An optimized WordPress host and domain server, supporting more than two million domains