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Author websites · built by ReadInk

Your book deserves a home that works.

We build author websites that turn visitors into subscribers, subscribers into readers, and readers into growth — so your website sells while you write.

A pretty website is not the goal. Growth is.

Most author websites are online business cards: admired occasionally, useless daily. Every site we build is a quiet machine with one job — capture the reader. A free-chapter offer readers actually want, an email list wired to deliver it automatically, buy links that don’t leak sales, and pages structured so Google and AI search can find you and cite you. That is the difference between a website you have and a website that works.

Every ReadInk build ships with the engine

Whichever version you choose, the growth machinery is never an upgrade. It’s the point.

Reader capture, wired

Newsletter signup on every page, a reader-magnet offer configured, and automatic delivery of your free chapter — working while you sleep.

A book-first design

Your cover, your hook, and your buy links above the fold. Visitors know who you are and what to read within three seconds.

Found by Google — and by AI

Structured book pages with the markup modern search and AI assistants read, so when someone asks about your book, the answer cites you.

Buy links that don’t leak

Every retailer you sell on, one clean row, ordered your way — no dead ends, no lost sales.

A press kit that ends back-and-forth

Bios, photos, cover art, and an interview one-sheet — downloadable, so media and event hosts help themselves.

Nothing that decays

No blog obligation, no plugin jungle, accessible by default. Twenty minutes a month keeps it perfect — and we’ll show you the routine.

Three versions. One standard.

The same care, the same conversion engine — sized to where you are. Every price includes the honest total: we tell you the hosting and platform costs upfront, always.

For the author just setting out

The Template Kit

You’ll build it yourself — with our design, our step-by-step videos, and a real person answering your questions for 60 days.

$169

  • The complete ReadInk author website template — the same design our builds use
  • The Website Workbook: every word drafted before you build
  • Step-by-step setup videos, from domain to launch
  • Email capture + free-chapter delivery, shown click by click
  • 60 days of email support from us — not a help forum
  • Honest cost sheet: exactly what hosting will cost you per year, before you buy

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For established authors & small publishers

The Bespoke Build

Backlist, series, multiple authors, or direct sales — you need a custom home designed around your catalogue and your ambitions.

from $2,400

  • Fully custom design around your brand, catalogue, and series reading order
  • Direct-sales storefront option — sell ebooks, paperbacks, and signed copies from your own site
  • Email automation: welcome sequences, launch flows, reader segmentation
  • Migration of your existing site and list, without losses
  • Everything in the Launch Build, scaled to your catalogue
  • Priority build slot and 60 days of post-launch support

Request a Bespoke Build

Demo Site

See a finished build before you spend a cent

We built a complete demonstration site for a fictional debut author — every page, every feature, exactly as your build would work. Click through it, sign up on it, poke at it on your phone. What you see is what you get, wearing your book instead.

View the demo site

How it works

Three steps. You bring the book; we bring everything else.

1

Tell us about your book

Our intake workbook draws out every word your site needs — your hook, your bios, your free-chapter offer. An afternoon’s writing, guided.

2

We build

Design, pages, email wiring, findability — done for you, with one review round to make it exactly yours.

3

You launch — and grow

We hand over the keys with a one-hour walkthrough and the monthly care routine. From day one, every visitor can become a subscriber.

Honest questions, honest answers

The ReadInk way: we’d rather lose a sale than oversell a website.

Can’t I just use a $10-a-month website builder?
You can — and for some authors that’s genuinely the right call, and we’ll say so if it’s you. What the cheap builders don’t give you is the conversion engine: a reader-magnet funnel that actually captures readers, retailer-smart buy links, and the structured pages AI search cites. That’s the difference between owning a page and owning an audience.
Will this sell books directly?
Honestly: a website is not a bestseller machine, and anyone who promises that is selling you something. What it does — measurably — is capture readers onto a list you own. Authors with an email list consistently out-earn authors without one, by a wide margin. The Bespoke Build can also add a direct-sales store, where you keep the margin retailers take.
What do you need from me?
A finished (or nearly finished) book, your cover, and an afternoon with our intake workbook. If writing the website words feels daunting — you’re a writer, so it won’t, but we polish alongside you either way.
What about hosting, domains, and upkeep?
We set up your domain and hosting in your name — you own everything, always. No lock-in, no hostage-taking. The site is deliberately built so twenty minutes a month keeps it healthy; we teach you the routine at handover, and optional care plans exist if you’d rather we keep the light on for you.
I’m a publisher with several authors — which version?
The Bespoke Build. We’ll design around your catalogue — series pages, author pages, a shared store if you sell direct. Talk to us; we’ll scope it honestly.

Ready — or nearly ready

Start your build, or watch one happen first.

Tell us about your book and we’ll reply within two working days with a straight answer — including “you don’t need us yet,” if that’s the truth. Not ready? Join the list and we’ll send the demo site plus our free guide: The Five Pages Every Author Website Needs.