Author Website
Your complete book business, built for you.
Your own author website at the heart of it, with every sale going straight to your bank.
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What you get
Your own bookshop for your book business. Everything you need to sell every format you publish.
Every sale lands in your bank. Direct from reader to you, with no middlemen taking a cut.
It runs while you sleep. Print on demand for paperbacks and hardbacks, ebook and audiobook auto-delivery.
Your readers, your list. A growing mailing list owned by you, with welcome emails and sale follow-ups built in.
Inside your author website
Your own website at yourname.com
A complete professional author website, live at your own personal domain name.
- All the pages an author needs (home, about, books, bookshop, blog, contact)
- Your own author branding, created with you during setup: colours, fonts, imagery, and character that run through every page
- A working blog, ready to pull readers in through search
- Your personal domain name registered on your behalf
- Hosting included as part of your Writing Studio membership
Reads and feels like yours from the homepage down.
Your author bookshop
A state-of-the-art author bookshop sits at the heart of your site, built on professional ecommerce software.
- Every book gets a dedicated product page, showing the cover, the description, the sample, and every format
- Full shopping basket and secure checkout
- Runs on your own payment account, so every sale lands directly in your bank
- Every transaction visible in your dashboard in real time
- Every reader who buys becomes a customer of yours, with their details held on your own mailing list
Your audience grows with every sale, sale after sale.
Print on demand, wired in
Your paperbacks and hardbacks are wired into a professional print-on-demand system through a full API connection.
- Printed to order at a commercial press the moment a reader pays
- Shipped straight to the reader’s address, anywhere in the world
- Stock, packing, postage, and fulfilment all happen behind the scenes
- The order lands in your dashboard so you can see it on its way
From the click to the delivery, every step runs itself. The system never clocks off, even if you do.
Ebook and audiobook auto-delivery
Your digital downloads flow straight from your bookshop to the reader, sold and delivered directly from your own site.
- Ebook files delivered to the reader’s inbox the moment the payment clears
- Audiobook files delivered the same way, ready for the reader to download and listen
- Download links built to expire securely after use
- Every download logged in your dashboard
Around the clock, whether you’re at your desk or fast asleep.
Reader emails, fully automated
Your author bookshop is wired into a professional email platform through a full API integration. The entire reader-email side of your business runs automatically, from the first newsletter signup to the final follow-up after a sale:
- Newsletter signups flow straight from the site to your mailing list
- Order confirmations go out automatically the moment a reader pays
- Follow-up emails invite a review or suggest another of your books
- Welcome emails start the relationship with new subscribers
- Domain authentication built in, so your emails arrive reliably in reader inboxes
- Send newsletters to your list whenever you have something to share
- Build your own automations on top: launches, drip sequences, reader tagging, the lot
Set up when your site goes live, running quietly from your first sale, and open for you to build on whenever you want.
Your bookshop, your rules
Your bookshop never closes. It runs around the clock, twenty-four seven, ready to take a sale whether you’re at your desk or fast asleep. Every commercial decision about your catalogue belongs to you, ready for you to step in whenever you want:
- Upload new books as you publish them, with your cover, description, sample, and format options
- Publish blog posts and edit your pages whenever you want
- Set the price for every book and every format
- Run launch sales for your newest releases
- Offer discount codes to your mailing list for a birthday or a milestone
- Bundle your series together at a reader-friendly price
- Switch anything back whenever you want
On holiday or fast asleep, the shop keeps running and your readers keep buying.
The personal touch
Two personal one-to-one sessions with us
A setup form arrives by email the moment you order, so we can use the call for the human part, not the admin.
Welcome Session
We meet on a call at the start of the build, relaxed and unrushed. Your setup form is already in our hands, so from the first minute we’re talking about how your author brand and your book business come to life.
- Check your setup choices together, with any last changes to colours, fonts, imagery, and author branding
- Set up your print-on-demand account, ready to print paperbacks and hardbacks to order
- Set up your email platform, wired in for newsletters and order automation
- Set up your payment account so every sale lands straight in your bank
- Get your domain sorted so your site goes live at yourname.com
- Ask us anything you want to know before we build
Launch Session
Once your site is built, we meet again to bring it to life with you.
- Walk through every page of your finished site
- Load your first book into the shop together: cover, description, pricing, and formats, live on the call
- Test a practice sale from end to end, so you know the whole flow
- Pick up any final details you want adjusted, now you can see it all together
With your permission, we record and edit your Launch Session into a proper personal tutorial, built around your own site and your own books, so loading every future book is as simple as watching it again.
The Author Website package
Author Website Setup
A complete book business, designed and built for you end to end. Your website, your bookshop, your print-on-demand, your email system, and two personal sessions with us. Delivered as one done-for-you setup, live at your own domain and ready to take orders.
- Your complete author website, on your own personal domain
- Your author bookshop, selling all your formats
- All integrations wired in (print-on-demand, email, payments, domain)
- Automated reader emails running from your first sale
- Full control of your catalogue, prices, promotions, and launches
- Your own personal tutorial, built from your recorded Launch Session, to guide you through loading every future book
Delivered as: your live author website at yourname.com, built and wired for you, ready to take orders.
A book business like this, with all the API integrations, commissioned separately can run over £5,000.
How it works
You order
Your setup form arrives by email the moment you order. Fill it in at your own pace, with everything we need to start the build.
Welcome Session
We meet on a call to set up your accounts and lock in your design. Your book business takes shape from this conversation.
We build your site
Everything is configured and tested behind the scenes. When the build is complete, we send you a link to see your finished site.
Launch Session
We meet again to load your first book into the shop, or a dummy if you’re still writing, and walk through the finished site together. Your book business is live.