Author websites · done for you · from £199

A real home for your books — the one page online that’s yours.

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.

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By publishing.co.uk · UK-based since 2018

An illustration of an author site we build.

What makes it different

Three things a template can’t give you.

01 · Designed for you

Genuinely beautiful.

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.

02 · Built to be found

Findable by Google and AI.

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.

03 · Simple to keep fresh

Update it in a minute.

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

The work sells the work.

We could describe it, but it’s quicker to show you. Here are three, all 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.

A demonstration author website for the invented cosy-crime writer Hester Quill: her name in large serif type on warm paper, an illustrated cover of a village church at dusk, and Books, About and Contact in the navigation. — **A four-book series, with the shelf, the reading order and the buy buttons.** Hester Quill is invented — deliberately, and the site says so on every page — so you can see the shape of the thing without a real author’s books in the way. See it live →

The live author website for Robert Prime: a heartbeat line running across a soft hero image, the author's name in large serif type, the memoir Google. Panic. Repeat. shown on a cream cover card, and Books, About and Connect in the navigation. — **An author website, live.** This is our founder Robert Prime’s own site — built on the exact system we’d build yours on. Not a mock-up and not a template: a working site you can open right now. See it live →

The Flip Anxiety book website: a dark, warmly lit page with the title Google. Panic. Repeat. set very large in cream serif type, a one-line description of the 4-Second Flip Method, and two buttons — Get the Book and Free Workbook. — **And the same book, sold.** A single-book site for the same author — one promise, one method, one obvious next step. Same system, completely different design, because the job is different. See it live →

The first is a demonstration for an author we invented, so nothing real is misrepresented; the other two are our founder’s own, so you can see 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

What we leave out — on purpose.

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.

No blog

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.

No shop or checkout

Your buy buttons send readers wherever you sell — Amazon, Waterstones, Kobo, Apple Books, or your own shop. No payments touching your site means nothing to secure and nothing to go wrong.

No mailing list to run

Already have a newsletter service? We send readers straight to it. Haven’t got one yet? Your site collects the addresses for you and you can download them any time — either way the list is yours, and we never write to it.

No theme pickers or page builders

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

We keep it beautiful. You keep it current.

When your site is live, changing it is effortless. You get one simple editor — no logins to lose, nothing new to learn. It does a handful of things, all of them plain, and nothing you can break.

Your photoSwap your author photo whenever you like.

Your booksAdd a new release, edit a blurb, reorder your covers or add a buy link.

Your linksFacebook, Instagram, TikTok, your newsletter — on or off in a tap.

AnnouncementOne line, one switch: “New book out May 3 — preorder now.”

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

One beautiful site. Two ways to have it.

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.

Most authors

Author

£199one-off

You pay £199 today. The £15 a month starts when your site goes live — not before. Both prices include VAT.

A site designed from scratch for your books — its own colours, its own type, its own atmosphere. Not a template with your name on it
It moves — type that arrives, covers that drift, a page that is quietly alive on every screen, not just the first
Home, books, about and contact, with a page for every book
Up to 6 books, with covers and buy links (more at £5 each)
Your own web address connected
The simple editor — keep it fresh yourself
One revision round before it goes live

Buy my website — £199 today →

Author Pro

£449one-off

You pay today; the £29 a month starts when your site goes live. For authors with a lot of books. The design standard is identical — you are buying room, not a better site.

Everything in Author — same design standard, nothing held back
Up to 30 books instead of 6, with a page for every series
3 flagship book pages included — a page built around a single book, for your three biggest
A design refresh every year as the catalogue grows
Priority support

Ask about Pro →

A page for one book

A page designed around one book.

Your site already has a world — its colours, its type, its atmosphere. A flagship page takes one book and builds it a room of its own inside that world: the kind of page a launch deserves.

The same price whichever plan you are on, because the design work is your site’s and that is already done. Author Pro simply includes 3 of them.

£49 per book, any plan

3 included with Author Pro

A four-book series is £196 on Author, or one extra page on Pro. Every new release afterwards is £49.

Ask about flagship pages →

Bigger than that — a large back catalogue, a series that deserves its own world, a site to move across — is bespoke work from £2000, quoted properly before anything starts. Tell us what you have →

Cancel any time, no notice period. Full refund of the build fee any time before your site goes live. Your web address is registered to you, and if you ever leave we hand you the whole site, your content and your images — free, within 30 days. Read the full terms →

Questions authors ask

Everything else you’re wondering.

What exactly do I get?

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 — designed for your books rather than picked from a menu. Up to six books on the £199 plan, more at £5 each. Plus a dead-simple way to keep it fresh.

Do I have to build or design anything?

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.

How do I keep it updated?

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.

Why is there no blog, shop or theme picker?

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.

How much does it cost?

Setup is £199 today, then £15 a month starting when your site goes live — not before. That covers up to six books; extra books are £5 each, and Author Pro (£449) covers thirty plus a page for every series and three flagship book pages. Both plans are designed to exactly the same standard — Pro is more site, not a better one. That is the price in pounds, confirmed in writing before you pay a penny — no currency surprises.

Can I see the terms before I buy?

Yes — the author website terms are published in full. The short version: cancel any time with no notice period, a full refund of the build fee any time before your site goes live, your web address is registered to you and not to us, and if you ever leave we hand you the whole site plus all your content and images, free, within 30 days.

What if I want to stop?

Cancel whenever you like — there is no notice period and no exit fee. The monthly stops at the end of the month you have paid for. You keep your web address, and we give you your whole site as a set of files, plus everything you wrote and all your images, so you or anyone you hire can put it online elsewhere. You lose the editor, so the site becomes fixed rather than editable, which is the honest trade.

Who builds it?

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.

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