Professional Author Website Design Services

That Showcase Your Books, Grow Your List, and Attract Your Ideal Readers

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Custom-Built

Done-For-You

Responsive Team

Looking for a professional author website? Don’t want to do it yourself?

Why waste precious time mastering complex website design skills when you could be writing your next book?

Let our experienced web design team help you create an author website masterpiece, custom-built for you.

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All of Our Done-for-You Author Website Service Packages Include:

Upfront Design Preview

We provide a custom design vision upfront so you can see exactly what you’ll get before you commit to anything or pay a cent.

100% Custom Design

Take a look at our portfolio, and you’ll see the difference. Every design is one-of-a-kind, tailored exclusively for your unique author brand.

Best-in-Class Build

We’ll build your author website on a platform tailored to your needs, optimized for speed, security, SEO, and user experience.

You Get A Team!

Your project includes: a project consultant, a project manager, a graphic designer, a website designer, and an operations manager, ensuring expert support at every step.

Author Site Pages

Since we’ve worked with hundreds of authors, we know exactly which website pages you’ll most need, whatever your genre or niche.

Email Sign Up

An email list is a top recommendation from the million-selling authors we’ve worked with, and we’ll help you set it up to grow and engage your readers.

Easy to Update

You’ll be able to add new blog posts, book and series pages, and maintain your site with ease. We build it that way.

Website Manual

We give you a website handover guide to show you exactly how to update and change content on your website when needed.

Quality Assurance

We include 30 day quality assurance and aftercare to make sure you’re 100% happy with the final result after launch.

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Our Author Website Examples by Genre

We’re Author Website Specialists

Meet the Team Helping Authors Like You Make an Impact Online

We’ve worked with hundreds of authors, and made it our mission to help writers like you rocket your online presence.

Our dedicated team specializes in author website design services that impress, engage, and inspire action—helping your message connect with readers and make an impact like never before.

(Meet Matt & Sonja – Your Author Website Design Team Leaders)

We’re a partnership built on love, business, and coffee.

Rocket Expansion’s directors, Matt Ziranek and Sonja Graser, decided we would have a whole lot more fun working together and building something amazing than we would on our separate career paths.

It’s proven to be a great decision.

Matt comes from the visual arts. He’s done virtually everything visually creative you can imagine, from enormous oils paintings to life-sized classical greek statues to furnishing architectural enrichments for Russian castles.

He’s no stranger to the digital arts as well…

In more recent years, Matt fell madly in love with digital marketing, becoming SEO certified under a famed SEO project manager for PayPal and Airbnb.

Sonja has a formal and professional grounding in graphic design, web design, and digital marketing.

With a former corporate career in creative marketing for local and international lifestyle brands, Sonja has been a key player in creative marketing teams for nearly two decades.

An adventurer by heart, she’s crossed the Atlantic by yacht, climbed the highest mountain in Africa, and is just generally a badass.

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Optional, Attention-Grabbing

Custom Background Video For That Opening “WOW” Factor

Ever wished your website had that extra edge, so that when someone arrived on it they just went “Wooooow!”?

Well, that’s the effect our Wow-factor background videos create. Check out some examples below:

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Our Google Reviews

Sometimes Authors Even Write About Us!

Lynn Westhoff
Lynn Westhoff
May 16, 2024

A Game-Changer for My Author Career - Working with RocketExpansion was one of the best decisions I've made for my writing career. Their expertise in building author websites is unparalleled. They delivered a website that is visually stunning and packed with features that enhance my ability to engage with readers and promote my books effectively. The process was smooth and collaborative from start to finish. I was particularly impressed with their customer service; they were always available to answer questions and provide insights. I wholeheartedly recommend their services to any author looking to make a significant impact online,

Lolisa Monroe
Lolisa Monroe
May 16, 2024

Rocket Expansion is a professional, test personal team of creators. Their ideas are amazing and how that take all your crazy ideas and make them work like clock, is a blessing. The whole team greets you personally over zoom so you feel comfortable and included. They care what you think and welcome your feedback and all the silly questions you can ask! Could not be more pleased!! Thank you Mathew, Claire, Sonja, & Cloe!

David J. Hill
David J. Hill
April 28, 2024

For Rocket Expansion, the Devil is in the details. I looked at dozens of web designers. They hooked me with their level of LISTENING. Their AI character representation was closer than my imagination. The colors, transitions and contemporary designs bring my thoughts to life. I thank them from the bottom of my heart. You will too!

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How Does It Work?

Our Process

Send Info & Meet on Zoom

to discuss your author website vision, requirements, and goals.

Receive Design & Proposal

If you’re happy with what you see, pay the deposit and begin website development.

Your Site Goes Live

Within 4 – 6 weeks.

Quality Control & Aftercare

For 30 days after launch, anything not working perfectly is quickly corrected.

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Our Service Pledge To You

We treat your project with professionalism and treat you like a friend.

Certainty

You’ll know exactly what you’re getting before you pay

Quality

Overdelivering with service and quality is simply how we roll

Care

We care about you, your work, and your vision for your website and author career.

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Frequently Asked Questions

An author website is a website specifically designed for an author, not just for a book or business.

While building a website around a book or series can sometimes be a good idea, it’s usually best to base your website around you, the author. Ideally, it should use a domain like yourname.com if available.

You’ll need:

  1. Your own domain name (e.g., yourwebsite.com).
  2. Website hosting.

If you don’t already have these, don’t worry—we’ll help you set everything up when you’re close to launching your new website. You don’t need any technical skills or knowledge about domains and hosting.

Your author website plays a big role in email marketing. It’s where you can collect email subscribers that you’ll engage with later.

Don’t stress about the technical details. We’ll help you set up a new email marketing platform if you don’t already have one, or integrate your website with your current email marketing platform seamlessly.

The short answer: no.
The full answer: if you don’t have one, you’re missing out!

Sooner or later, someone will Google you. As your audience grows, this will happen more often. Having a professional author website lets you own your online presence. If you rely solely on social media or third-party websites, you can’t control what readers will find about you.

Additionally, major promoters, influencers, or collaborators might search for you online to decide whether to feature or work with you. What they find—or don’t find—can make all the difference.

Here’s what we recommend:

  • Home Page: An engaging overview of everything on your site.
  • About Page: Highlights your credibility and positions you as a writer worth reading.
  • Books Page: Showcase your books and series. Include individual pages for each book or series to improve search engine discovery and user experience.
  • Contact Page: Make it easy for people to reach you—you don’t want to miss a big opportunity because they couldn’t find a way to get in touch.
  • Email List Sign-Up: A must-have for growing your email list. Many of our million-book-selling clients emphasize the importance of email marketing in driving book sales.
  • Reviews and Social Proof: Build trust with new readers by showcasing testimonials and reviews.
  • Blog (Optional): Share more about yourself, your writing, or your world to deepen reader engagement.
  • Tools and Resources Pages (Optional): Offer unique extras like fictional maps for fantasy authors, coloring pages for children’s books, or other niche-specific content.

For a deeper dive, check out our full blog post on what to include in an author website.

Sure! Scroll up to our portfolio section above to browse a selection of author websites we’ve built, organized by genre. You can also explore our author website examples post, which includes actionable tips to improve your own website.

If you’re looking for even more inspiration, check out our genre- and niche-specific author website example posts—we’ve created a ton for you to explore!

Of course! With the majority of people browsing the internet on their phones, we make outstanding mobile user experience a top priority in all our author web design services. Your site will be designed to look and perform perfectly on any device.

Absolutely! We design our websites to be user-friendly, making updates and maintenance simple and intuitive. You’ll also receive a comprehensive website handover guide that walks you through how to make virtually any kind of update you might need.

If you ever get stuck or prefer not to handle updates yourself, we’re here to help! We offer affordable maintenance packages or ad hoc support for a small fee.

We design your website to make it easy for you to update and add content like books, blog posts, or new pages. However, if you’d rather not handle updates yourself, we’ve got you covered!

We offer:

  • Set-fee monthly maintenance packages for regular updates.
  • Hourly ad hoc rates for occasional tweaks and minor changes

Yes, all our author website services packages are payable in three equal monthly payments.

Plus, you don’t need to start paying until you’ve received a website proposal and a full homepage design preview. This ensures you’ll know exactly what to expect before committing to the project.

Simply contact us, and we’ll be happy to help!

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