Author Website Design Services
We are artists and writers ourselves.
We know what it means to have unique personal tastes, a tendency to dislike marketing and self-promotion, and a deep need for self-expression.
We felt this so deeply that we’ve dedicated a part of our agency to serve the author and creative community. We’d love to help you overcome the hurdles of marketing yourself effectively online as an author or artist. Less time spent DIYing your artist or author website design and marketing is more time spent focussing on your creative passion.
Core Service
Creative Websites
The design of your website is about so much more than just a pretty face. It needs to encourage engagement, build your audience, sell your work.
You need a website that your fans feel is built just for them.
Core Service
SEO (Google Love)
50% of all online traffic comes from search engines, mostly Google. As part of every artist and author website package, we:
- optimize all current pages for relevant keywords in search engines.
- provide a personal screen-share coaching call with you to show you how to write content that is found in searches. You end the call ready to write your next content piece.
- give you an SEO strategy session so that you or your publicist know exactly how to get more and more website traffic in the future.
Core Service
Build Your Platform
Author website design services are only one piece of the puzzle. Online marketing has many channels today in 2020.
You can try and master Facebook, Google or Amazon marketing solo, or you can get help from our professional consultants and platform managers.
We build you a fully-functioning, fan-centric sales funnel using our proven digital marketing strategy and keep improving it each month using feedback from marketing analytics.
We’ll kick off with a free consultation. Hit the button below to get started:
Featured Projects
Author Website Design and Marketing
Epic Fantasy Author: Davis Ashura
Davis Ashura is an epic fantasy author known for the series’ “The Castes and Outcastes: An Asian Indian Epic Fantasy” and “The Chronicles of William Wilde.”
He’s sold over 100K copies thus far and showing no signs of slowing down. Having discovered us by one of our other websites we built for another author, Davis boarded the Rocket to give his author website a complete re-design.
Celebrity Artist Website Design
Grammy Award Winner: Robin Hogarth
Robin Hogarth is the go-to expert in Traditional Southern African Music for TV and Film. His music has been used by Oprah, Prince Harry, and Meghan Markle. He’s collaborated on projects with Paul Simon, Alicia Keys, and Johnny Clegg.
This is the story of how we condensed a lifetime of music, achievements, and stories, including winning the highest accolade in the music world, into a website that still holds true to Robin’s unique and uplifting personal brand.
Author Website Design and World Building
Fantasy Author: Melissa McPhail
Melissa McPhail is a rising star in the epic fantasy genre. Her audiobooks on Amazon Audible have featured in the No1 best-selling spot in the genre.
Over a detailed briefing phase we carefully discovered exactly what was needed and wanted in her new website. The overall concept is an immersive experience, submerging fans within the magical world of her novel series, “A Pattern of Shadow and Light”.
Author Website Design Services
Let’s launch your artist or author website
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We’ll get back to you shortly with a proposal including timeline, suggested strategy and pricing.
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Praise for the Rocket
Going the extra light year is part of our flight plan.
“Rocket Expansion redesigned my author website and did an outstanding job in every aspect.
They were able to hear my vision for the site and turn it into something remarkable and unique. It is truly a work of art. Their expertise shows in both the quality of the design and the details of the interactivity users experience. It’s a living, breathing site that you want to spend time looking through. I was also wholly impressed with the level of customer service. They addressed quickly my every nit-picky comment, and they made sure the site was running flawlessly – and still continue to do so. Highly recommended.”
Melissa McPhail – Best Selling Fantasy Author
“A great team, prompt, polite, helpful and really easy to work with.
They listen to what you want and do some funky kind of rocket magic with your ideas and thoughts. Then the countdown begins, and what’s more they Launch on time. 
Super bunch of people and great company to work with.”
Colin Sinclair – Fantasy Author
“I had a fantastic time working with Matt and his group at Rocket Expansion. They bring such a positive energy to their work, and it shows. I’m thrilled with the results.”
Davis Ashura – Epic Fantasy Author
“I can’t praise the team at Rocket Expansion enough. Throughout a complete overhaul involving a new web site, change in hosting, email templates and more, my experience was of a passionate, dedicated group with technical brilliance and artistic flair. I felt like I was in safe hands, and still do, and I look forward to working with the team in the future.”
James Maxwell – Best Selling Fantasy Author
“Rocket Expansion goes above and beyond! Although I only had a very vague idea of what I wanted for my website, Matthew and Sonja put their creativity, business and IT skills to work to create my children’s author website. The result: A well thought out, well laid out, fun website. They definitely succeeded in surpassing all my expectations. I am absolutely thrilled with my website. Their attention to detail, helpful manner, and professionalism are top notch. They can also be commended for excellent aftercare support when needed. I highly recommend the phenomenal Rocket Expansion team.”
Jacqui Shepherd Vd Merwe – Children’s Book Author
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