Your book's homepage
Every author needs an online presence. If you’re selling a book online at Amazon, Waterstones, etc, existing and potential readers need to know that you are a serious author with a strong brand and established identity. Your website communicates your personality, genre and style. It’s an extension of your writing and is one of the most effective marketing tools you can have.
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“I like the design and concept of my site enormously - it looks fabulous.”
Douglas Watkinson
Screenwriter of Midsomer Murders and author of The Nathan Hawk Mysteries
douglaswatkinson.com
“I absolutely love the website. Thanks from the bottom of my heart!”
Rob Babcock
Author of Dog Moves in a Mysterious Way
rob-badcock.com
Publishing author websites
As an author, you will rarely be around to convince thousands of potential readers of your writing prowess, explain your style and influences or tell them what titles you are working on. Regardless of whether you plan to sell your book directly from your own site or use third-party selling platforms such as Amazon, your book sales success will be affected by how your potential readership perceives you. That perception is shaped by your book cover, book reviews and your profile or ‘author brand’ as presented on your website.
If an Amazon customer reads a glowing review for your book but needs help finding out who you are to reinforce and validate their decision to buy, they may not commit to the purchase. It’s not their financial investment that is the deciding factor; it’s as much the time investment that they might be prepared to make into a serious author’s work. Your website also communicates the nature of your publishing brand; are you, the author, the main brand element in the website, or is it the publishing name you’ve chosen for your ISBNs? Perhaps the site is dedicated to a particular book series instead of your author profile.
You can approach your site in many ways, and we can help you uncover the most appropriate one to help you be the kind of author you want to be. Your website fulfils this need for communication and will be used by you to host a blog, redirect readers to the retail outlets for your work, and, crucially, make you searchable online. This may sound complex, but we create sites in WordPress or Joomla, which are Content Management Systems designed to allow you the freedom to update and maintain your site without needing any programming knowledge.
We build in a modular fashion, meaning you can start with the basics such as Home, Books and Contact pages. Then, as time and budget allow, you can add various extras such as a Blog, Shop, News, and multimedia items like a Gallery and Video Adverts for your titles, etc. Once you have a book or two online, traffic will begin to flow to your site, and this is when you have a chance to really impress your potential readership and turn them into loyal fans. You can see some examples of our author websites below:
“Thank you for all your hard work making my lovely website.”
Yongja Kim
Author of Easy Guide to Korean Cooking
yongjakim.com
