Author websites · done for you · from £199
Your website shouldn’t be embarrassing, and it shouldn’t be a fight to update. We design and build you a genuinely beautiful author website — then hand you a dead-simple way to keep it fresh. Not a website builder. A website, built for you.
By publishing.co.uk · UK-based since 2018
An illustration of an author site we build.
What makes it different
Every site is designed and built for your books to a standard a drag-and-drop template can’t reach — the kind of site that makes a reader, an agent or a journalist take you seriously.
Fast, clean and built the way search engines and AI assistants like — so when someone looks you up, or asks an AI who wrote your book, there’s a proper home for them to land on.
Add a book, swap your photo, change a link — through a locked, dead-simple editor. You keep it current; we keep it beautiful. Nothing to design, nothing you can break.
See for yourself
We could describe it, but it’s quicker to show you. Here are two we built, both live right now — you can open either one and click around. Every site we make is designed for its books alone, so no two look alike. That’s the point.
Both sites shown are our founder’s own, so you can see the real, finished work rather than a mock-up. Yours would be designed from scratch for your books — it would not look like either of these.
Deliberately left out
Every one of these is a feature, not a gap. They’re the things that make most author websites slow, fragile and a chore to run. Leaving them out is what keeps yours fast, findable and effortless.
Blogs go stale and break. If you write online, we link out to your newsletter or Substack instead — your words, where your readers already are.
Your buy buttons send readers straight to Amazon or your store. No payments touching your site means nothing to secure and nothing to go wrong.
We connect your existing newsletter sign-up. Your list stays yours, with the provider you already trust — we just make it easy to join.
No fonts, colours or layouts for you to second-guess. The design is the product. You get a beautiful site and a simple editor — not homework.
Keep it fresh in under a minute
When your site is live, changing it is effortless. You get one simple editor — no logins to lose, no dashboard to learn. It does exactly five things, and nothing you can break.
Every change goes live in seconds. When you add a new cover, it’s slotted into your design automatically — you never make a design decision.
Your site is yours
Your web address is always registered to you, never to us.
Every word, photo and cover you give us stays yours.
If you ever leave, we hand you the whole site to take with you — free, forever, no hostage-taking.
You own your home on the web. We just keep it beautiful.
Simple pricing
Both tiers get the full, done-for-you design — simplicity is never an upsell. You only choose how many books and how often you refresh.
£199one-off
Then £15/month to keep it live and supported. Everything, designed and built for you.
Quoted for your catalogue
Starts from the Author price of £199 and depends on how many books you have. We tell you the exact figure before any work starts.
For prolific and series authors who want more — and a yearly refresh as their catalogue grows.
Questions authors ask
A complete, professionally designed author website — a home page, a books page, an about page, and a simple way for readers to reach you or join your list — built for you to a standard a template can’t reach. Plus a dead-simple way to keep it fresh.
No. You send us your books and a photo; we design and build the whole thing. You approve it before it goes live. There is nothing to drag, pick or configure — the design is done for you.
Through a locked, dead-simple editor — add a book, swap your photo, change a link, in under a minute. You keep it current; we keep it beautiful. There’s no page-builder to fight and nothing you can accidentally break.
On purpose. Those are the things that make author websites slow, fragile and a chore to run. Leaving them out is what keeps yours fast, findable and effortless. The design is the product, not a toolkit.
Setup is £199, with a small £15 a month to keep it live and supported. That is the price in pounds, confirmed in writing before you pay a penny — no currency surprises.
It is built and looked after by the same team behind everything else at publishing.co.uk. You can see a live example before you decide anything.
Tell us about your books
We’ll confirm your price, show you what your site could look like, and answer anything you want to ask first. No pressure, no obligation.
Prefer email? hello@publishing.co.uk