Author Website

WordPress Templates for Author Website Design

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.

Our website design templates for author websites are easy to work with, which means you can focus on marketing and promoting your book.

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Start your author website today with the help of our professional pre-built website templates. It’s fast, easy, and we are there to guide you through these steps:

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Select Your Website Layout and Starter Content
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We strongly believe we’ve built the best website templates and WordPress themes for author websites.

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

It also means managing and editing your content, publishing blog posts, building landing pages, and creating sales funnels is quick and easy.

Our author website designs include:

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

Extensive customization options that encourage you to take control of the finer details that elevate your brand’s visual design and build trust with your audience

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 quick setup wizard and read-to-do sample content so you can get your site up and running just like the demo in minutes

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

Typography options and color controls that ensure your type and color palette reflect your book or author brand

Design options that make it easy to share media mentions, book reviews, testimonials, videos, and sizzle reels, or even create a digital media kit

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

Author Website Builder

Our flexible website templates turn you into a website builder so you can create an photography website without having to learn a complicated third-party page builder that may be old news in a year.

All of our photography WordPress templates are block-based to give you total control over the layout of every web page on your site unlike Wix, Weebly, or SquareSpace. And extensive customization controls let you manage even the tiniest of details.

Our flexible website templates make it easy for you to create a successful author website that:

Spotlights the book cover and gives people a peek inside the book to build buzz

Highlights reviews, testimonials, media mentions, and your author brand speaking sizzle reel

Provides access to a media kit with photos, book cover images, and your author bio

Directs people to places they can buy the book

Invites people to download a sample chapter or free giveaway

Sets expectations for the book and your subject matter expertise

Take a peek at our most popular website templates for authors and click any template to view a full working demo:

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$99 One Time + $9 Per Month

Perfect for those who don’t have the desire or time to deal with complicated technical details. Get hosting, premium plugins, all Mai Design templates, and more—all managed and for you so you can focus on doing what you love.

Starter Content Makes Creating Your Consultant Website Easy and Fast

When you choose a website design template from BizBudding, you get all of the starter content and page layouts from the demo site. From the navigation menu and text, to the images, buttons, and calls to action, you can make your business consulting website look just like the demo with our one-click install.

Go from Zero to Website in Just Four Simple Steps:

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Choose Your Template

Browse our website design templates—all powered by the WordPress block editor. Find the perfect template for your author brand, and feel confident knowing you can customize everything down to the tiniest of details.

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Purchase Your Template

Once you find a web design template you love, buy that single template or the full Mai
Design Pack that includes all of our stunning website and blog templates. You can then use the template(s) on as many sites as you want!

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Install in One Click

Our setup wizard installs your website template and starter content in just one-click, so your new website, from the pages to the navigation, looks just like the demo site you fell in love with for your author brand from day one.

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Customize Your Template

With your new author site up and running and ready to go in just three easy steps, all you need to do is customize the design to match your brand and replace the starter content with your own. It’s seriously that simple.

Now, you might be wondering, “What if I want to install a BizBudding template on my existing website along with the demo site starter content? What happens to my content?

Don’t worry, we’ve already thought of that! During the one-click install, our setup wizard checks to see if your site already uses the same pages in our starter content. Once it detects your pages and content, it safely installs new duplicate pages that mirror the demo site layout.

You get all of the starter content and demo site blocks and page layouts added to your site and all of your existing pages and content are preserved and protected.

How to Create an Artist 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 an author, you’ll do a variety of print and digital media interviews to promote your book. 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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Every author needs to have a 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.

“People constantly ask me how to get started blogging. Over the past decade, I’ve tried and tested dozens of tools, platforms, and resources and none compare to Mai Solution, which is now my “go-to” recommendation for building a great-looking, high-performing website at a fraction of the cost. I highly recommend it! and count on Mai for Wellness Mama.”

Katie WellsCEO of Wellness Mamahttps://wellnessmama.com

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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 website templates included in the Mai Design Pack and our Mai Solution website hosting package.

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Why Use a Mai Website Template for Your Author Website

Choose the perfect website template for your author brand or choose the Mai Design Pack or Mai Solution, which include ALL of our website design templates. Either way creating your author website will be a breeze!

Mai templates are built with ease of use and your success in mind:

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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 designs 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 Designs, 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.

All Mai Designs are mobile responsive so 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.

Optimized For Search Engines

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 design templates and individual block components are optimized not only for search engine optimization (SEO), performance, and speed, but to deliver premium user experiences that will have visitors coming back to your site again and again.

Plus, with Mai Solution, You Can Do What You Love and Leave the Rest to Us

Mai Solution was created for authors and content creators who want to build a brand, create new content, and grow an audience without the burden of technical website management.

Get everything you need to DIY your author website and get online quickly:

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Hassle-Free Setup

Once you purchase your Mai Solution subscription, just provide your domain name, and we’ll have your site ready in just a few days. We’ll stay in touch with you every step of the way so you know exactly what to expect.

Managed DNS

Every aspect of your Mai Solution takes speed into account. That includes DNS. We manage DNS through Cloudflare, authoritative DNS that boasts the fastest performance of any managed DNS provider.

Security + SSL

We want to be part of building a better, safer web. Free SSL/TLS certificates are included free with every Mai Solution website to ensure protection from your end user to our hosting servers.

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Performance + Speed

A balance of clean code and efficient design created a fast WordPress theme built for speed and performance, delivering fast load times. Mai Theme 2.0 scores in the high 90’s out of the box without caching or optimization plugins.

Search Engine Friendly

All Mai design templates and individual block components are optimized not only for search engine friendliness, but to deliver premium user experiences that will have visitors coming back to your site again and again.

Ecommerce Ready

Mai Solution integrates and comes pre-installed with WooCommerce so you have a solid, trusted eCommerce platform to start selling your products or services on right away.

Managed Software

We manage the hosting, plugins, and all technical components of your website so you can rest easy and focus on what you do best, creating great content and serving your audience.

Fast Support

When you talk to our support team, you are usually talking directly with one of our developers. We go above and beyond to make sure you get the answers you need and get them fast.