author website builder
Describe your books and get an author site with the latest release, your backlist and an about page, published on a live address you own. Free to start.
Free to start. Building uses your Zeplik credits; hosting a published site is included.
The exact brief that built the example
Not an illustration of the kind of thing you could write. This is the sentence that was typed, and C. R. Halvorsen is what came back. Pressing the button above starts you with it already in the box, to change however you like.
An author site for a mystery novelist named C. R. Halvorsen: home with latest book hero, books page listing four titles, about the author page.
Open C. R. Halvorsen to see the finished site running, and remix it into your own project in one click.
What this kind of site has to get right
An author site is a permanent address for a career that moves in bursts. Most of the year it is a backlist and a biography; for six weeks around a release it is a launch page. The generated site is built so that switching between those two states is an edit, not a rebuild.
The books page is the one that has to age well. Four titles today, nine in a decade, each with a cover, a line of description and a place to buy: structured as data so the tenth is an addition rather than a redesign.
The about page does more work than authors expect. It is what a journalist, a festival programmer and a foreign publisher all land on, so it needs a short version and a longer one.
What it needs
- The latest book, unmissable, with a buy route
- A backlist that stays tidy as it grows
- An about page with a short bio and a long one
- A press or contact route for events and rights
- A site that survives three years without maintenance
Frequently asked questions
- Can I add a new book when it comes out?
- Yes, by asking. Adding a title is a targeted edit to the books page, and swapping the home page hero to the new release is a second sentence.
- Can I link to several booksellers?
- Yes. Each title carries as many buy links as you want, which matters if you would rather not send every reader to one retailer.
- Can I add a newsletter?
- The site can carry your existing newsletter provider's form. For sign-ups in your own database, connect a Supabase project and ask.
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Change the name, the pages, the tone. Watch it build in a live preview, then publish it on a real address. The code is yours either way.