Describe it
One honest paragraph about the business, the people you serve, and what you want the site to do.
For authors & writers
A website that sells your book while you write the next one
Describe your books and your reader. Get an author site with book pages, a working email capture, and a launch funnel — live today.
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I write literary thrillers. Three books out, fourth next spring. I want readers to find the series in order, join my list for a free first chapter, and see my events.
Here is the author site I would build:
- Pages Home · The series · Each book · About · Events · Newsletter
- Reader magnet Free first chapter · welcome sequence · CRM tag by book
- Tone literary · restrained · no hype
Approve, or tell me what to change.
Sound familiar?
We have heard this from every author we worked with.
- Your publisher is not going to build your platform. That was always your job.
- Every hour spent fighting a page builder is an hour not spent writing.
- You do not need "a website". You need book pages, a reader list, and somewhere to send people on launch day.
- Readers now ask ChatGPT what to read next. If your work is invisible to it, you lose recommendations you never knew existed.
James Cook Media built 300+ client websites and funnels before building this product. The pattern above is why it exists. Read the story.
What actually matters here
The four things that move the needle for you.
Every platform lists fifty features. These are the ones that decide whether this works for a author.
Book pages that convert
One page per book with buy links to every retailer, series order made obvious, and reviews where a browser will actually see them.
The reader list is the asset
A free chapter or guide captures the email, the CRM tags which book brought them in, and a welcome sequence goes out automatically.
Learn more Launch funnels without a launch team
Pre-order pages, launch-week sequences, and a thank-you flow you can rebuild for every book in an afternoon.
Learn more Found by AI, not just Google
Structured data marks up your books, your author identity, and your events so assistants can recommend you accurately.
Learn more In the product
Real screens, not mockups.
How you get there
Five approvals, then it is live.
You are never handed a finished thing you did not agree to. You see the style, the structure, and the layout first.
Walk through each step- 01
- 02
Approve the look
Type, colour, and voice proposed from your brand. Nudge anything that feels wrong.
- 03
Check the sitemap
See the pages it plans and why each exists — before any words are written.
- 04
Approve wireframes
Section-by-section layout. This is where you catch the thing you forgot.
- 05
Go live
Hosting, SSL, your domain, and AI-visibility defaults are handled.
Authors: the questions we get asked
Can I sell books directly from my site?
You can link to every retailer you sell through, and you can sell direct using the built-in products and checkout if you fulfil yourself or sell digital editions.
What if I already have an author website?
Build the new one alongside it on a free plan, compare them honestly, and only point your domain across when you prefer the new one.
Do I need a separate email tool like Mailchimp?
No. Email campaigns and sequences are part of StoryPages and read from the same contact list your site captures.
Can I add a blog or newsletter archive?
Yes. Ask for it in the conversation and it becomes part of your sitemap before anything is built.
How long does an author site actually take?
The build is a same-day path. Most of the elapsed time is you deciding how you want your series described, not waiting on software.
Go deeper
Written for exactly this situation
How-to How to build an author website in one conversation A working walkthrough for writers: what to prepare, the exact brief to type, which pages to keep, and how to wire a free-chapter magnet into your reader list on launch day. Read it How-to How to get your website cited by ChatGPT and Claude The practical playbook for getting your site cited by ChatGPT, Claude, and AI Overviews: structured data, llms.txt, semantic HTML, and quotable writing. Read it
Build the site your author business deserves.
Describe it in your own words and see the proposed sitemap in minutes. Free to start, no card.