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Author Website Design Services
- If you’re looking to create an immersive online experience that is both functional and aesthetic,
- If you want to attract future readers and make them fall in love with your author brand…
You’ve come to the right place!
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
Author 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 author website package, we:
- optimize all current pages for relevant keywords in search engines.
- provide an exact proven method for writing blog posts that can get traffic from relevant searches in future.
- ensure you know exactly how to get more and more website traffic in the future.
Core Service
Build Your Platform
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 other marketing channels 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:
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Featured Author Sites
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
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When it comes to our clients,
going the extra light year is part of our flight plan
“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 has just completed the creation of a brand new website for me. Being as it is a comprehensive representation of my life’s work, they have done an amazing job in every area: aesthetic ideas, voluminous projects, and a far reaching format.
They have done an excellent job in understanding the complexities and wide parameters of what I do, taking care, and producing a vehicle which will communicate to all and drive my future plans. Thank you Matt and Sonja! ”
Robin Hogarth – Double Grammy Award Winner
“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 website 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 website was running flawlessly – and still continue to do so. Highly recommended.”
Melissa McPhail – 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
“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
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