“It finally feels like my website belongs to me. My readers notice the difference — and so do I.”
A studio for authors
Handcrafted websites for authors.
Clean, trustworthy websites for authors who want a professional online home for their books, brand, and reader community — designed with care, one author at a time.
A small, independent studio. No pushy sales calls. No templates in disguise.
Author Site
A coastal mystery author
New standalone · Spring release
Built for authors
Everything here is shaped around books, series, and the readers who care about them.
Custom, not cookie-cutter
No template kits in disguise. Every site is designed to fit the writer in front of me.
Reader-friendly structure
Clear navigation, calm typography, and a phone-first layout your readers will thank you for.
Personal, one-on-one
You work with me directly, start to finish. Plain conversations, steady progress.
Why a website
Why authors need a real home online.
A short practical case — without hype. If you have ever wondered whether a proper website is worth the trouble, here is the honest version.
Social platforms are rented space.
Feeds change, algorithms shift, accounts disappear. A website is the one place online you actually own.
Readers need a real home for your books.
A central place for your catalogue, reading order, and what to read next — instead of asking them to chase you across five platforms.
A thoughtful site makes you look established.
Before readers, reviewers, agents, and collaborators reach out, most of them quietly look you up. Your site sets the tone.
A good site invites, instead of begs.
No pop-ups, no hard sell — just a calm, clear path from curiosity to a book in a reader’s hand.
Selected work
A few projects, carried through with care.
Each site is designed around its author — their catalogue, their readers, and the way they want to show up online.
- Author Site
A Coastal Mystery Author
A quiet, editorial author site for a mystery writer with a long backlist and a new standalone on the way.
Concept Project
A Coastal Mystery Author
- Series Page
A Multi-Generation Historical Saga
A dedicated series landing page bringing together three interconnected trilogies under one easy-to-navigate umbrella.
Concept Project
A Multi-Generation Historical Saga
- Author Site
A Literary Essayist
A spacious, typographic home for an essayist whose work spans books, longform journalism, and public talks.
Concept Project
A Literary Essayist
A small, growing portfolio. Concept projects are labelled as such — real client work replaces them as each launches.
In their words
What working together feels like.
Real quotes will live here as projects launch. For now, these are placeholders written to capture the tone we aim for.
“Calm, clear, and genuinely collaborative. I never felt like I was being talked down to or upsold.”
“The first website I have ever been proud to link to. It reads like my books.”
What I offer
Four ways to work together.
Most authors start with a full website. Some arrive with a specific book to launch, or a site that just needs a thoughtful refresh. All of it is on the table.
01
Full Author Websites
A complete online home for your books, brand, and readers.
A custom-built website designed around you and your catalogue — with a warm, readable homepage, dedicated book pages, an about section, and everything readers need to follow and find you.
02
Book & Series Landing Pages
Focused pages that do justice to a single book or a whole series.
Single-purpose pages built to introduce a book or series with clarity — cover art, synopsis, retailer links, excerpt, reviews, and a reader-magnet opt-in when you want one.
03
Website Refreshes
A thoughtful update for a site that has drifted.
A careful redesign of your existing author website — cleaner typography, updated book list, better mobile layout, refreshed about page, and a structure you can actually maintain.
04
Newsletter & Reader Magnet Integration
A quiet, respectful on-ramp into your reader community.
Mailing-list signup forms, reader-magnet delivery pages, and the small plumbing that connects your website to MailerLite, BookFunnel, or the tool you already use.
How it works
A calm, four-step path from first call to launch.
No long onboarding forms, no mystery deliverables. Here is what it actually looks like to work together.
- 01
We talk
A relaxed conversation about you, your books, and where you want to go.
- 02
I map the structure
A simple blueprint for the site — pages, flow, and priorities.
- 03
I build the site
Careful, iterative design and development with steady check-ins.
- 04
We launch
A calm, well-tested launch with a site you can maintain.
Portrait coming soon.
About the studio
A small studio with one focus: websites that serve authors and the books they write.
The Author Forge is an independent studio, not an agency. You work with one person, start to finish. The goal is simple: a site that feels as considered as the book on its cover — warm, readable, and unmistakably yours.
I care about clarity, typography, and the quiet details that separate a professional author site from a template. If that sounds like the kind of site you want for your work, we are already a good fit.
A quiet invitation
Ready to build your author website?
A short conversation is the best place to start. Tell me a little about your books and what you want the site to do — no pressure, no pitch deck.