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Author Website Design

Author Website Design Services in the UK

Anyone who hears about your book does the same thing next: types your name into Google. Whatever comes back decides whether they buy, subscribe, or forget about you by the afternoon. A proper author website makes that search work for you — introducing the writer, listing every title with a link to where it sells, collecting email addresses, and giving press and event organisers one reliable place to find you.

We build author websites for writers at every stage and in every category: debut novelists, memoirists, business and self-help authors, children’s writers and illustrators, academics. Each site is designed around your catalogue, your readership and the job you need it to do — not a stock theme with an author photo dropped into the header.

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The Platform You Own

Your Website Is the One Platform You Actually Own

Accounts get suspended overnight. Retailer pages redesign themselves without warning. Algorithms change what they show and to whom, and readers migrate to a new platform every couple of years regardless. Your author website sits outside all of that. It is the one address you control outright — the content, the mailing list, and the route a reader takes from curiosity to checkout.

A site worth having does three jobs at once. It introduces you well enough to earn trust before anyone spends money. It sends readers to wherever the book sells with nothing in the way. And it captures an email address, so the next launch, the next event or the next announcement reaches people directly instead of hoping a feed shows it to them.

Every build is shaped around those three jobs and around the writer you actually are. A literary fiction site reads nothing like a business-author platform, and neither resembles a children’s author site with school-visit booking on it. Genre, readership and purpose drive every decision we make.

  • Built around your catalogue, your genre and the readers you write for
  • Mailing list, direct book sales, press kit and per-title pages included
  • Mobile-first, fast to load, and optimised so your name ranks for itself
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Featured Catalogue

Explore Our Book Catalogue

Collection of professionally published books created with dedication and quality. Our catalogue reflects the diverse stories and talented authors we proudly support.

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Ready When You Are

Ready To Publish Your Story With Us?

Take the first step toward becoming a published author with a trusted publishing partner. Our experts are ready to guide you through every stage of your book’s journey.

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Our Publishing Approach

Our Approach To Delivering Publishing Excellence

We focus on providing the best publishing services that respect every author’s vision. Our services are designed to make the publishing journey simple, transparent and successful.

Quality

We maintain professional standards in editing, design, formatting and publishing to deliver books that meet industry expectations.

Author Focused

Your ideas and goals remain our priority. We create personalised publishing solutions that match your unique requirements.

Integrity

We believe in honest communication, transparent processes, and building long-term relationships with every author we work with.

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Author website costing

How Much Does an Author Website Cost in the UK?

What the site has to do sets the price. A tidy three- to five-page site for a debut with one title is a different build from a multi-book author platform carrying a blog, a shop and an integrated mailing list. We do not quote before understanding the project, and we do not apply one rate to every author regardless of what they need.

What you do get is a written quote with the whole cost visible: no hosting charge buried in the small print, no renewal that doubles in year two, no feature reclassified as an extra halfway through the build. You know what you are paying for, what is included and what is not, before anything starts.

No idea what you need yet? That is completely normal, and it is what the free consultation is for. Tell us about your books, your readers and what you want the site to achieve, and we will map the rest.

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Launch an Author Website That Sells, in 4 Steps

One address that belongs to you — where readers find every title, join your mailing list, and buy direct without a retailer taking its share. Four stages from brief to launch.

01

Plan Your Site

We map the pages you need: your books, your story, your mailing list and somewhere to sell direct to readers.

02

Design Your Pages

A layout built around your covers and your brand, shown to you and approved before a line of code is written.

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Build & Connect

A fast, mobile-ready build with retailer links, newsletter signup and a shop if you want to sell direct.

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Go Live & Grow

We handle the domain, hosting and launch, then hand over a site you can update yourself without a developer.

Why Authors Hire Us

Reasons Authors Hire Us

A website gives readers somewhere to land and a list you actually own. These four decide whether there is a book worth landing for, and whether anyone knows to look.

Book Editing Services

A site sends readers to your books, so the books had better hold. Developmental editing for structure, line and copy editing for the prose, and proofreading before anything goes on sale.

Book Cover Design

Your covers are the first thing a visitor sees on your site and the only thing they see on a retailer page. Original design across every format, built to work as well at 200 pixels as at full size.

Book Marketing

A website gives you somewhere to send traffic; marketing creates the traffic. Amazon advertising, launch campaigns, book PR and email — pointed at pages you own rather than at a retailer listing.

Book Publishing

A site works hardest when every title on it is properly distributed. ISBN, print setup and listing across Amazon, Apple Books, Waterstones and 170+ markets, with full rights and royalties retained.
What Authors Say

What Authors Say About Us

Read what authors have experienced while working with our book publishing agency in UK.

Crown Publishers UK helped me turn my manuscript into a professionally published book. Their team guided me through every step and made the process simple.

Diane Johnston London

The editing and proofreading service improved my book significantly. The team understood my ideas and delivered excellent results.

Nneka Okafor Manchester

I was impressed with their self-publishing support. They explained everything clearly and helped my book reach professional publishing standards.

Tom Hadley Bristol

The cover design created by Crown Publishers UK was exactly what my book needed. It looked modern, attractive, and reader-friendly.

Fatima Al-Rashid Birmingham

The ghostwriting team transformed my ideas into a complete story while keeping my original vision intact. Highly recommended for aspiring authors.

Marion Z Duffy Glasgow

From publishing to marketing, they provided outstanding support. Their dedication helped my book get the attention it deserved.

Lyon Clifford Leeds
Author Website FAQs

Author Websites: Common Questions

What writers ask before commissioning a site — whether it is needed at all alongside Amazon, how long it takes, and who updates it afterwards.

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01 Do I need an author website if I am already on Amazon and social media? +
Both are useful and neither is yours. Your Amazon listing belongs to Amazon, and every follower you have belongs to the platform hosting them — which can change its rules, its reach or its mind without consulting you. An author website is the one place where you own the experience, keep the email addresses, and stay findable long after a post has scrolled out of sight. It also gives journalists, festival programmers and event organisers a single credible source on you, which matters more than most writers expect until the first enquiry arrives.
02 How long does it take to build an author website? +
A standard site — three to five pages, book listings and a newsletter signup — runs three to four weeks from brief to launch. Larger builds with direct sales, a landing page per title and a blog take six to eight. In practice the schedule depends far more on how quickly your copy, photographs and book details arrive than on the design and development, which usually moves faster than authors anticipate.
03 Can I update the website myself after launch? +
Yes. Sites are built on platforms where you can add a blog post, update a book page, swap a photograph or edit any text without touching code. After launch we take you through it properly rather than emailing a manual. If you would rather not deal with it at all, ongoing maintenance and content updates are available — but the site is yours to run either way.
04 Will my author website show up on Google? +
The technical groundwork is there from day one: structured data, fast page speed, mobile-first layout, written meta titles and descriptions, and a clean sitemap submitted to Search Console. That is half of it. The other half is what you publish — book pages, updates and posts that answer what readers and journalists are actually searching for. Ranking for your own name is usually quick; ranking for your genre takes content, and we can help with both.
05 Can I sell signed copies directly from my author website? +
Yes. We set up direct sales through Stripe or PayPal, configure UK and international shipping, and connect stock so signed paperbacks, hardbacks, eBooks and audiobooks can all be sold from your own pages. Selling direct keeps a far larger share of the cover price than any retailer route, and for an author shifting copies steadily — at events, through a mailing list, off the back of a launch — that difference adds up quickly.
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