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WordPress Themes For Author Websites

Whether you’re writing your very first book and need to create a professional author website, or you’re a bestselling author getting ready to release your next book and need to elevate your online presence to match your authority brand, rest assured that our author website templates have exactly what you need.

An author brand is just as much about the author as it is the book. When you write a book, it becomes an extension of you, your expertise and knowledge, your passion, and your message for the world. Your website needs to support everything from online marketing for your book and growing your audience to attracting lucrative media opportunities and speaking engagements.

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The Best Website Templates and WordPress Themes For Authors

All of our author website design templates are modern, responsive, highly customizable, SEO optimized, and ecommerce-ready, which means you can create and launch a powerful, profitable author platform quickly and easily.

Our author website designs include:

Mai Pure Author demo homepage

Flexible content blocks you can display in any order to create unique, eye-catching page designs that showcase your book and expertise

Customization options down to the minute details that make it easy to share media mentions, book reviews, testimonials, videos, and sizzle reels, or even create a digital media kit

Big, beautiful images that can be displayed in nearly any orientation, shape, or size to ensure that your content looks stunning when shared on social media

A one-click demo setup wizard and ready-to-do starter content that gets your site up and running just like the demo in minutes—plus easy to follow tutorials for getting started

Pre-built testimonial, call to action, and email newsletter subscription blocks that engage readers

Tons of typography choices (including Google fonts) and virtually unlimited color options that ensure your type and color palette reflect your brand.

Social media integration to encourage visitors to connect with your or share your content

Support from an experienced, highly-qualified team that wants you to succeed

Skip the Page Builders, Welcome to Blocks

Popular drag and drop page builders and website builders like Squarespace and Wix were all the rage when it came to building affordable author websites, but now, with the rollout of the Gutenberg block editor, WordPress has a full-blown page builder built-in.

All of our WordPress author theme options are block-based to give you total control over the layout of every page on your website.

Take a peek at our demos for author websites. Click any design to view a full working demo:

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Mai Theme Essentials

$99

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Mai Theme Pro Bundle

$198

$148

Auto-renews yearly

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Mai Theme Lifetime Bundle

$699

One-time fee

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  • Get everything in the Mai Theme Pro Bundle for life

  • Lifetime updates and support

How to Create an Author Website

Every author needs a website. When you’ve written a book—or two, or three—you need a digital platform to not only promote, market, and sell your books, but to promote, market, and sell yourself as the trusted author and expert who wrote the books!

Here’s what authors need to include on their websites:

A Snapshot of Your Story

The homepage of your author website should be a mini snapshot of your larger brand story. It needs to include a photo you, an image of the book cover, a description of the book currently being promoted, a short bio to introduce you to new visitors, and social proof like media mentions, testimonials, and reviews to build trust and inspire people to buy your book and become a subscriber.

Information About Your Current Book

Your author website needs to shine a spotlight on the book you’re currently promoting. It needs a dedicated landing page that is all about that one book. The landing page should include images of the book, a summary of the book, quotes and excerpts, and book reviews. It should also include information about you, the author. This includes your bio and background, your mission and message, your why, and how you hope your book will impact others.

Information About the Author

The about page is one of the most visited pages on a website and for authors it’s critical. People who visit your author website want to know more about the author who wrote the book. They want to know who they’ll be learning from and whose perspectives and opinions they’ll be reading. Your author about page needs to include photos of you, your professional bio, and more personal details that help people connect with you.

Details on Where to Buy Your Book

When someone visits your author website, it’s a sign that they’re interested in your book. Make it as easy as possible for visitors to buy your book by giving them multiple ways to get your book. Create a “Buy My Book” page on your website and list (and link to) all of the retailers where someone can buy your book. Include links to places like Amazon throughout your site and even in your website footer.

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A Media Kit to Make Interviews Effortless

As a book author, you’ll do a variety of print and digital media interviews to promote your work. You also need to generate reviews. Give reporters, journalists, and publishers everything they need to make reviewing your book or booking you for an interview easy. Create a digital media kit that includes photos of you and your book, your bio, a summary of the book, your logo, your sizzle reel, links to buy the book, and your social media links.

A Speaking Page that Highlights You

By writing a book, you have demonstrated undeniable subject matter expertise and that makes you a trusted authority to speak at conferences and events. Your author website needs a page dedicated to promoting you as a speaker. Your speaking page should include the topics you speak about and sample topics with titles and descriptions, details about custom presentations, video clips of you speaking, testimonials, and a contact form.

A Book Library that Elevates Your Brand

If you have written multiple books, you need a book library on your author website. A book library is a page on your site where visitors can find more information on your previous books—those you want people to know about, but aren’t actively promoting. A book library lists all of the books you have written and for each book, includes an image of the cover, a summary of the book, at least one review, and links to buy the book.

A Free Offer to Build Your Email List

As an author, you already know that the money isn’t in the initial book sale, it’s in the follow up sales to those who join your email list, buy your programs and products, become members of your community, and connect with you on social media. Your book is a lead-in for your greater author brand, and a free, list-building offer related to your book is the perfect way to engage new members of your audience.

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A Blog to Share Your Perspectives, Opinions, and Expertise

Every author needs to have a personal blog. It’s the perfect place on your website to regularly publish new content that reinforces your expertise, solidifies your authority positioning, and demonstrates your depth of knowledge. It’s also the perfect place to connect with your readership and share helpful, valuable insights and information, tips, tricks, tools, products, and even success stories.

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Author Website Examples

We have created the best author website templates that will wow your audience, sell your latest book, and build your author brand. Check out websites built by authors just like you using the website templates included in every Mai Theme purchase.

Examples of author websites:

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Why Use a Mai Website Template for Your Author Website

Both our Mai Theme Pro Bundle and Lifetime Bundle include ALL of our website templates, which means you never have to limit your creativity to one option, and instead, can combine your favorite elements of each template to create your own unique author website.

Mai Theme website templates are built with your success in mind:

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Powered by WordPress

With WordPress now powering 40% of all sites across the web, it is our platform of choice because its content management system and flexibility puts bloggers and website owners in control of their content. All of our stunning designs and website templates are powered by WordPress, our Mai Engine Plugin, and a collection of premium plugins that deliver the features successful bloggers and content creators need

Easy and Fast to Customize

Our WordPress templates are block-based and designed to provide ultimate flexibility. Mai Theme website templates make it easy to change up everything from the logo, colors, and typography to images, page layouts, and content.

Plus, we know you’re unique and don’t want to limit your creativity to one template. With access to all Mai Theme website templates, you can pick and choose your favorite features in our designs and combine them to create a site you truly love.

Meticulous Control Over Details

Our Mai Engine Plugin, included with every purchase, brings extensive controls to WordPress that empower you to customize everything on your site down to the tiniest of details.

Want icons instead of images, four columns instead of three columns, image backgrounds, centered text, or content blocks that reach beyond the margins? Not a problem—and in most cases, you can get it done in just a few clicks. No custom code or expensive web designers needed.

Powerful Built-In Integrations

We empower you to create a site that not only fits your immediate needs, but grows with you as your brand evolves and your reach expands.

Whether you want to sell books, build affiliate revenue, launch an online course, build a membership, or earn ad revenue, you’ll appreciate our seamless integrations with popular solutions like WooCommerce, Learn Dash, Google AdSense, and many more.

Retina-Ready, Mobile Responsive

Building a successful digital brand, growing an audience, and reaching your goals, means your site needs to look amazing and be easy to use in every browser and on every device regardless of size or type.

Our mobile responsive designs ensure your content looks beautiful and is easy to engage with on any device. They also come retina-ready so they render crisply and beautifully on high-resolution screens.

Search Engine Optimization

From the code that powers our WordPress plugins and website templates to the designs that provide a gorgeous foundation for your big vision, everything we create adheres to current code standards and web development best practices.

All Mai Theme website templates and individual block components are not only SEO friendly and optimized for performance and speed, but they also deliver premium user experiences that will have visitors coming back to your site again and again.

Our Website Design Templates Give Authors Control Over Their Content

From sites with tens of millions of monthly visitors, to global brands, to brand new starts ups, we provide consulting of all things digital and websites. That means that when you choose one of our website templates for your author website, you get everything you need to engage your audience, build your brand, and sell more books.

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Mai Engine Plugin

Powering robust customization options

Mai Theme runs on the powerful Mai Engine plugin, which provides the core power of the theme. Mai Engine runs as a plugin enabling you to receive the latest updates without breaking your website.

Mai Plugins

Adding new features and functionality

Get the control you need to manage every aspect of your site, without the need for custom code. Our Mai Plugins elevate the customization and functionality of your Mai Theme website to the pro-level.

Mai Setup Wizard

Installing demo content in minutes

To save you time and frustration, we include the Mai Setup Wizard with your purchase. Load the demo content, template parts, and customizer settings without overwriting any of your existing pages.

Friendly Support

Getting you unstuck and on your way

Our support team is fast, friendly and reliable, which is why we have so many 5 star reviews. Plus, we have the expertise of a hosting company, graphic design team, marketing agency, and web design company all rolled into one, so you can rest assured that we can help.

Website Planning Cheat Sheet

Uncover the 5 steps to getting started

Learn what you need to know before designing, building, and writing copy for your author website. Discover how to define your website strategy, write for your audience, and what pages you need.

Website Planning Workbook

Plan your website content

Clarify your ideas and plan your website with this 15-page Website Planning Workbook. Brainstorm and map out your goals, audience insights, pages and content, testimonials, and calls-to-action.

Create Your Author Website Today!

Mai Theme Essentials

$99

Auto-renews yearly

get tHE essentials

Mai Theme Pro Bundle

$198

$148

Auto-renews yearly

get pro bundle

Save $50 when you bundle with Mai Theme Essentials

Mai Theme Lifetime Bundle

$699

One-time fee

get lifetime bundle

  • Get everything in the Mai Theme Pro Bundle for life

  • Lifetime updates and support

Author Website Questions Answered

If you’re writing a book and getting ready to build a website to power your author platform, or you’re redesigning your author website for a new book launch, you probably have questions. Luckily, we’ve got answers.

Here are some of the frequently ask questions our support team is asked by authors considering one of our website templates:

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How much does it cost to build an author website and get started?

When you choose Mai Theme, you are investing in your long-term success. Get every single one of our website design templates and starter sites for $99/year—plus 1 year of updates and support, our powerful Mai Engine plugin, and more with Mai Theme Essentials. Or, choose the Mai Theme Pro Bundle and get everything from Mai Theme Essentials, plus all of our pro plugins and pre-built block patterns and other bonuses for only $148/year. Plus, use the templates for unlimited sites on any WordPress hosting platform. Or, get everything in the Mai Theme Pro Bundle for life for a one-time fee of $699. See pricing for more details.

Is WordPress a good platform for author websites and book marketing?

We think WordPress is the best platform for authors no matter if you are self-published or have several books under your belt. In combination with Mai Theme and Mai Engine, you’ll get unmatched power and flexibility—the optimal foundation for creating your author website. We choose WordPress to build on because we love how it puts authors in control of their all of their content, from the words on the page, to images, video, and audio content. With Mai Theme and WordPress, it’s so user-friendly that you can make changes on the fly without needing to engage an expensive web designer or worry about custom code.

How do I know if your author website templates have everything I need?

Our experience building custom websites and partnering with agencies and seasoned bloggers means we know exactly what DIY-er or someone new to building their own site would need in a website template. With Mai Theme you get all the functionality and flexibility you need. The block editor gives you the experience of a website builder like SquareSpace, with the ability to rearrange and customize, without sacrificing control, all within an easy to use visual composer.

What’s the easiest way to market my books online?

Using Mai Theme makes customizing the templates fast and easy, but we know there is more to a great website than design. Our experience creating data-driven digital marketing strategies means we understand how to build an audience, set up an online book store, create courses, use affiliate marketing, and support other marketing, lead generation, and monetization initiatives that contribute to significant ongoing revenue for years to come.

Do you have author website examples I can look at?

Yes! We love to show off what other authors, content creators, and bloggers have created using our website templates. Mai Theme is the perfect theme for creative professionals because it is flexible enough to be applied to any niche, while still offering extensive features and customization options that put you in control. Take a look at our customer showcase to see what’s possible and get inspiration for your own author website.

What if I’m not an “author”? Can your themes apply to other similar types of businesses?

Of course! Our author Wordpress themes can be applied to whatever type of writing, editing, consulting, or service-related business you have. You could also think of them as more generic WordPress blog themes or publisher themes. Some other business examples our author themes will work for include: book stores, copywriters, freelance writers, editors, and proofreaders, media, communications, and public relations businesses, screenwriters, playwrights, bloggers, and more. The great thing about our Mai Theme templates is that you can you choose whatever design speaks to you most and apply it to your business.

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