Author Websites

About the Author

With the About the Author page, you can let the readers know about you and why you wrote your book. This page is basically where you show them your face and tell them some things about you and what you’re interested in. By doing this, you become more than a question mark and instead someone they can see and know and relate to. Furthermore, being more personable like this is a good way to start building a loyal readership.

About the Book

Your homepage will showcase your book and give viewers an initial idea it, but the About the Book page is where your book can really take over the spotlight. This page is where you can show potential readers your blurb, some sample interior pages, and graphics that bring your book to life. In addition, you can put whatever testimonials and reviews you have for the specific book on this page.

Whether you have one book or ten, the shop page is undeniably an important one. This page holds all of the information and relevant data about your book, for instance the price, dimensions, pages, format and anything else that the reader needs to know when deciding to buy your book.

If you want to, you can sell other products that are related to your book through the shop page, for example official merchandise or your art/photography that appears in the book.

Use contact forms to simultaneously encourage your readers to get in contact with you and receive testimonials you can use to promote your books. This section also gives readers a clear and simple platform to tell you what they thought of your book or ask a question about you and your projects.

Your blog is an ever expanding and changing platform that gives you the opportunity to talk. You can let viewers peek behind the scenes, read deleted chapters, see upcoming projects – the list is only as endless as your imagination. Blogs are also particularly good to keep your website active and evolving while also getting your readers interacting with you and your products.

Media kits are a great way for authors to promote themselves and their author brand – especially self-published authors. This page gives anyone exactly what they need if they want to talk about you or your book, whether they have a website, blog, or even magazine or newspaper. Generally, a media kit will include the following: author information, booking information, a media release for your current book, any information about your past books, and even suggestions for interview questions.

Image Gallery

Image galleries are a dedicated space that lets the visual content of your book shine while at the same time getting people interested in your book. They are particularly perfect for photography books, cookbooks, memoirs, biographies – any project that features a larger number of photographs.

Video Gallery

Video content is a good way to personalise your author website, and if you’re wanting to feature quite a few videos then a gallery is an effective way to display them. Useful video content for an author could come in many forms, including vlogs of your writing journey, or video tutorials if your book is instructional.