Author websites and visual identity
A good home online for you and your books.
I design and build websites for authors from scratch, starting with the books. I can also make the look, press kit and launch graphics that go with them, so readers get the same picture of you wherever they find you.
You can hire me to tell you what your current site needs, to build a new one, or both.
Talk about your websiteThe first 20-minute call is free and confidential.
Selected work
A few of the writers I’ve built for.
What the website needs to do
One stable address for your work.
Your website is the one place online you actually control. Your books, bio, events, press photos, newsletter and contact details can all live there, and none of it disappears when a social platform changes its rules or its owner.
A good author website lets people:
- Work out who you are and what you write
- Find your books and current projects
- Read or subscribe to your work
- Grab your bio, author photo and press information
- Invite you to an event, interview, or collaboration
- Contact you or your representatives
How I can help
Advice, design, or both.
Advice and direction
- Working out what the site needs to say about you and your books
- An honest look at the site you have now, and what it’s missing
- Sorting out your books, bios, events and press material
- Deciding who the site is for and what goes on it
- A look and feel that suits your books
- Your newsletter, archive and social accounts, connected to the site
Design and delivery
- A site designed from scratch and built on a platform you can actually use
- Your visual identity, with type, colours and photography to match
- Editing and organizing the text you give me
- Book, event, press and contact pages
- Press kits and launch graphics
- Training so you can update the site yourself, without calling me every time
- Your own domain and email address, in your name
The project
How a website project goes.
We talk
About your books, your readers and what you want the site to do for you.
We plan
We decide what goes on the site and how it’s arranged.
I design and build
I design it, you tell me what you think, and then I build it.
We launch
I show you how to update the site, and I stick around for when the next book comes out.
Looking ahead
Built to keep up with you.
A good site should still work for you three books from now. It needs room for the backlist, the new projects and the readers you pick up along the way.
More people now find writers through search engines and AI tools that summarize what they read. If your own site gives a clear, accurate account of who you are and what you’ve written, those summaries have something reliable to draw on. We’ll also decide together what you’d rather keep to yourself.
Start a project
Tell me what your website needs to do.
Maybe it’s your first site. Maybe you have four books and a site that still only mentions the first one.
Tell me what you have now and what you want it to do.
Talk about your websiteThe first 20-minute call is free and confidential.
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