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An author-services website, shown as a concept.
A concept site for a business that helps authors write, publish and launch a book. There is no publishing business behind it: the cover gallery is labelled as concept work on the site itself.
- Project
- Author-services website
- Status
- Concept build
- Content
- Demo book covers; no publishing business
An author-services site, shown as a concept.
A hard-to-picture service,
made concrete.
The cover library, the services and their limits, and the journey that ends at one form.
01 / Cover library
A cover gallery as the front door.
The homepage is a library of ten concept covers. Choosing one shows its genre and points to the service that fits it.
The centre panel reads “One book is missing from this library. It could be yours.” with two ways forward: start your book, or explore services.
The gallery labels itself on screen: “Concept cover gallery · Not client work”.
The library
Ten concept covers, one of them the visitor's own book.
02 / Services
Services, with their limits written down.
Five service areas (strategy, writing and editorial, design and production, publishing and distribution, launch and platform), each broken into named services.
The same page lists what the service will not promise: guaranteed bestseller lists, rankings, reviews or sales; guaranteed bookstore stocking; legal clearance or tax advice; hidden ownership of the author's accounts; unlimited revisions behind a package name.
The rule we hold our own site to: say what the work includes, and what nobody can promise.
Named services
Each capability opens into services with a plain description.
What it won't claim
Six promises the site refuses to make, listed where a buyer will see them.
03 / Journey & enquiry
A nine-chapter map, then one form.
The author journey explains the work in nine chapters, from finding the book's direction to reaching readers. Every path ends at the same enquiry form.
Each chapter lists the questions it answers and its milestones. The form asks for the manuscript stage, the book type and the help needed, and tells authors not to paste confidential manuscript passages into it.
One enquiry path, instead of contact options scattered across the site.
Chapter 01
Questions on one side, milestones on the other.
Start your book
What happens after sending, stated before the visitor sends anything.
Every path on the site ends at the same enquiry form.
Selling a service that's hard to picture?
Tell us what you sell and what a buyer needs to see before they enquire, and we'll work out how the site should show it.