Looking for an author website that looks professional, loads fast, and actually helps you sell your book or pitch your next one?
This easy-to-edit Squarespace author website template is designed specifically for writers — whether you’re querying agents, self-publishing, or preparing for a launch.
✅ Built for Authors Who Want to Look Legit
This is not a generic website template.
It’s made for exactly what authors need most:
Home Page
A clean, cinematic introduction that instantly sets your tone.Book Page
Showcase your novel, series, or nonfiction book with a cover, synopsis, blurbs, and purchase or pre-order links.Writing Page
Highlight essays, short stories, or in-progress work to show your range and voice.About Page
Tell your author story with personality, clarity, and intention.Press Kit
Media-ready bios, high-res photos, and FAQ prompts — built to make interviews and agent pitches easy.Blog / Updates Page
Share behind-the-scenes process, essays, book news, or upcoming events. Great for SEO.Freelance Page
Optional space for editing, coaching, speaking, or services you offer beyond writing.Contact Page
A professional, simple form so agents, readers, and media can reach you directly.
⚡ Easy to Use. Fast to Launch. Fully Customizable.
Built on Squarespace (the most author-friendly platform)
Designed to be plug-and-play, you can launch in days
Includes step-by-step prompts so you know what to write on each page
Easily swap in your brand colors, photos, and fonts
Mobile Optimized – Looks beautiful on every screen.
SEO Optimized – Show up in search results with clean structure and fast load speeds.
★★★★★ Used by 50+ indie authors. 30+ five-star reviews. 7-day refund
WFWA
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NAIWE
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RWA
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Pencils & Lipstick
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Starstruck Podcast
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WFWA ✳︎ NAIWE ✳︎ RWA ✳︎ Pencils & Lipstick ✳︎ Starstruck Podcast ✳︎
What’s Inside
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01 | BRAND
The "show up like an author readers remember" branding guide
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02 | WEBSITE
The "what actually goes on the site, and where." Pre-built Squarespace template
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03 | READER MAGNET
The "what to offer so readers give you their email." guide
(Hint: Its not a a chapter preview. or sign up to my newsletter)
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BONUS | How to Find Readers
The "stop shouting into the void" reader-finding guide
Who this isn’t for
You want someone else to do it entirely (cohort or custom is below)
You want a magic tactic that skips the work to build a career
You think a website alone will sell your book
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100+
Websites Launched
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15 yrs
Designing for Disney, Nike & Publicist and more
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5 Stars
★★★★★
30+ five-star reviews from indie authors.
AUTHOR PLATFORM KIT
Your brand.
Your author website.
Your launch emails.
Looking for an author website that looks professional, loads fast, and actually helps you sell your book or pitch your next one?
This easy-to-edit Squarespace author website template is designed specifically for writers — whether you’re querying agents, self-publishing, or preparing for a launch.
✅ Built for Authors Who Want to Look Legit
This is not a generic website template.
It’s made for exactly what authors need most:
Home Page
A clean, cinematic introduction that instantly sets your tone.Book Page
Showcase your novel, series, or nonfiction book with a cover, synopsis, blurbs, and purchase or pre-order links.Writing Page
Highlight essays, short stories, or in-progress work to show your range and voice.About Page
Tell your author story with personality, clarity, and intention.Press Kit
Media-ready bios, high-res photos, and FAQ prompts — built to make interviews and agent pitches easy.Blog / Updates Page
Share behind-the-scenes process, essays, book news, or upcoming events. Great for SEO.Freelance Page
Optional space for editing, coaching, speaking, or services you offer beyond writing.Contact Page
A professional, simple form so agents, readers, and media can reach you directly.
⚡ Easy to Use. Fast to Launch. Fully Customizable.
Built on Squarespace (the most author-friendly platform)
Designed to be plug-and-play, you can launch in days
Includes step-by-step prompts so you know what to write on each page
Easily swap in your brand colors, photos, and fonts
Mobile Optimized – Looks beautiful on every screen.
SEO Optimized – Show up in search results with clean structure and fast load speeds.
WFWA
✳︎
NAIWE
✳︎
RWA
✳︎
Pencils & Lipstick
✳︎
Starstruck Podcast
✳︎
WFWA ✳︎ NAIWE ✳︎ RWA ✳︎ Pencils & Lipstick ✳︎ Starstruck Podcast ✳︎
Before You Buy
The real questions.
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An author platform is a website that captures reader emails. Publishers and agents keep using the word without explaining it. That's the whole thing. Your email list is what sells the next book on launch day.
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Yes. You need one before your first launch so you can collect emails from early readers, ARC teams, and podcast listeners. A launch without an email list is a launch without an audience.
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The Author Platform Kit at maitedalila.com/squarespace-templates costs $250 and includes the website with email capture built in, a brand course to personalize it, and a launch email template to sell your book. It's the fastest path for authors who want a working platform without hiring a designer.
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Three things. A Squarespace website with email capture already set up. A short brand course that walks you through personalizing colors, fonts, and copy for your genre. A launch email template you send the day your book releases. You get the website, you get the training to make it yours, you get the email that sells the book.
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Yes. The template is built around what every indie author needs — books front and center, email capture, a real about page. The aesthetic is intentionally adaptable. You drop in your covers and your voice, and it becomes yours.
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If you can use Canva, you can do this. Squarespace is drag-and-drop. The 7-day walkthrough shows you exactly where to click. If you get stuck, email me. I respond personally.
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Email me within 7 days. I refund you. No forms, no calls, no "let's hop on Zoom." Your money back.
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Book Maite on Reedsy at reedsy.com/maite-dalila-rodriguez. Custom builds are for authors who want the work done for them, want strategy input, or have a series, backlist, or multiple pen names to organize.
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Squarespace. It handles email capture, book pages, blog, podcast, and mobile without plugins. Maite builds every author site on Squarespace because it's the platform authors can maintain themselves after handoff.
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Not really. Squarespace has built-in email capture. You can start collecting subscribers before you pay for MailerLite or anything else. Upgrade when your list is big enough that the free tools stop being enough.
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You don't own Instagram or TikTok. You own your website and your email list. Social platforms can shut down, change the algorithm, or lock you out. Your email list is the one asset that ships when you launch.
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No. A Linktree can't capture emails, can't sell your book on launch day, and can't rank in Google when a reader searches your name. It's a bandage. You need a website.
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Maite Dalila is an ex-Disney web designer who now builds websites exclusively for fiction and nonfiction authors. She's verified on Reedsy and runs Copper Fox Studio. She's ran webinars on author website strategy for the WFWA, RWA, National Association of Independent Writers and Editors (NAIWE) and Reedsy.
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Romance, fantasy, romantasy, dark academia, cozy fiction, literary fiction, and nonfiction.
★★★★★
Over 30+ 5 Star Reviews
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Wendy LaManque
As a debut offer with no earthly clue what I'm doing, Maite made me feel like success is not only possible, but within reach. Maite made me a website that reflects all the love and work I put into my book. It is on brand, visually stunning, functional, and so much more professional looking than I ever could have done on my own (and I know because I tried). Do not hesitate to make Maite part of your team when you are ready to get serious about your book.
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Kirsty W.
As a debut author launching my first website, I couldn’t have asked for a better experience. Maite brought real care and intuition to the process, with a strong understanding of story, tone, and emotional world-building — not just design. She created a site that feels like a genuine invitation into a story still unfolding, balancing atmosphere and clarity beautifully. Thoughtful, collaborative, and quiet confidence-building, she was the perfect partner to help mark the beginning of my author journey. I’d happily recommend her to any writer starting out.
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Kate Sukeforth
I consider Maite of Copper Fox a champion in my career as a writer. That is how powerful she is. She combines hard-won expertise in brand story, strategy, and design with deep knowledge of an author's branding, readership, and book sales. Every step was explained to me. Every piece of the strategy was outlined for me. Though I am thrilled with the incredible look and feel of my website, I also feel confident knowing that this site checks all the strategy boxes, designed to tell the right story to the right reader at the right time. Most importantly, I want to speak to the care and compassion Maite brings to the vulnerability of creating a website. I'm an introvert like many writers, and I was not prepared for how vulnerable/fearful I felt creating a website for public viewing. I'm not the only creative who has felt this way, but Maite works with you to deliver the tools you need to walk confidently in the publishing world, and it matters. I look forward to working with her in the future. She is a champion!
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Kelsey J. Lawrence
Maite is such a collaborative, knowledgeable, and thoughtful web designer. She got to know me and my brand before she started creating my site, so when she shared her ideas for my site--it was EXACTLY what I envisioned, and more! She nailed it! She made the process so easy, and I have the most beautiful author website as a result. I highly recommend Maite for her website services. Everything was so straight forward, and she's absolutely lovely to work with.
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Anne Dutro
Wow, Maite!! I LOVE IT!😍 It looks amazing, and just the way I had hoped for, and more! I’m proud of this collaboration, and so happy with the results. It’s so inviting, engaging, cohesive, and joyful. Can’t stop looking at everything! Well done! 👏 Thank you for creating a beautiful website ♥️
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Lyssa Reese
Her process is insightful, inspiring, and empowering. The website we built together reflects the emotional spirit of my work, and I’m grateful for both the experience and the result she provided.
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Shannon Sauer-Zavala, PhD
Working with Maite was nothing short of amazing. I have a non-fiction (self-help) book coming out in August '26 and another one coming out in August '27. My previous website didn't really match the brand I am trying to build as a thought leader.
Maite's process was very organized - we started with design/theme. She asked structured questions that pulled imagery and phrases from me and, like a branding wizard, she was able to turn that into cohesive visuals for the site. It is the perfect blend of science/trustworthiness and beauty! But a good website isn't just pretty.
Maite is also an expert in user experience. My website is doing a lot. I serve more than one audience - people looking to grow, people looking for therapy, therapists looking for training, hospitals and clinics wanting to roll out my methods site-wide, and corporations/event planners. I have struggled for YEARS for how to organize all this on my site in a cohesive way. And
Maite was able to see the user journey and it just makes so much sense now. I was also concerned (anxious) about migrating domains because I had decent traffic to the old site via a personality test lead magnet. Maite explained the process very clearly and made sure all the old urls redirected to the appropriate page on the new site. I've already gotten TONS of compliments on the new site and it is has been only two weeks. I've been monitoring my traffic and it looks like my traffic hasn't dipped at all. F
inally, it is worth noting that this process took about 3 weeks start to finish. I completed Maite's onboarding docs, we met a week later and she had a design concept to show me. We discussed how to organize my services and week later when we met, the rest of the site was built out. Fast forward four days and the site was optimized for mobile and Maite had written all the behind the scenes redirect code. She gave me detailed instructions to redirect my old URL to square space and we were up and running.
This was a great experience and 100% recommend working with Maite
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Clara S
Working with Maite was a pleasure! She delivered a website that was beyond my expectations - better than I could have imagined it myself.
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Kat Caldwell
Maite did an amazing job on my website. I can't speak highly enough about her! If you're an author and need a website (yes, you do!) then work with Maite. You won't be disappointed!
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Sandi Murtland
Maite had an excellent process for getting my website project started and helping me with my author brand as well as the series brand for my novels. She turned ideas and thoughts into awesome images, designs, and pages. She was great to collaborate with, and her Squarespace knowledge and experience were key to getting it all done and getting the features and functionality I wanted. She saved me so much time and work. So appreciative. I would definitely recommend her.
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Patricia Wilson
Everyone, from my agent to my publisher, was impressed by my new website. She instinctively knew how to promote my writing in ways I hadn’t imagined.
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Colleen Q.
Maite provided a detailed, prompted self-inquiry to inspire her marketing plan. She used quotes and illustrations from my books, intimately introducing the characters, synthesizing the themes and authentically capturing my essence. Her attunement to my vision of the visual energy that aligns with this expansive way of meeting the present moment required many conversations and revisions and Maite devoted herself to the mystery, creating an alive set of pages that illustrate the psychedelic magic of conscious breath. If you want a responsive, creative web designer who will bring your vision, your story and your characters to life, Maite is for you. It is the story that connects us.
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Anne D.
Working with Maite was what I hoped for, and more! Her background in marketing, combined with her tech savvy insight pro tips made for an overall positive experience. She is thorough in her mission to extract information to build you the website you’re looking for. At first I felt overwhelmed by this, but Maite helped me persevere through it. I’m proud of this collaboration, and so happy with the results. She created an inviting, engaging, cohesive, and joyful website for a first time author. Maite enhanced and exceeded my expectations and highly recommend working with her.
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Paulette Brookes
While Maite has the credentials and previous experience as a brand strategist for huge corporations, she was so down to earth in dealing with a debut novelist who is just launching her book out into a very competitive marketplace.
She was patient and listened carefully to my vision for an attractive website and then offered her ideas to make it even more effective.
Webinar / Discovery Call
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Chera Dehoff
Highly recommend her to anyone looking for clarity and creativity in their online presence.
Maite helped me step back and see my website with fresh eyes, offering thoughtful ideas and direction that immediately helped me hone my vision.
Webinar / Discovery Call
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Ariella I.
I couldn’t be happier with the incredible work my web developer did on my website. From start to finish, she went above and beyond, translating my vision into a site that’s not only stunning, but deeply meaningful. This project is close to my heart, and she treated it with the same level of care, creativity, and professionalism that I did. Every detail was executed flawlessly: the layout, color palette, animations, and user experience all reflect the emotional warmth and beauty I wanted for the brand. Communication was consistent and proactive, deadlines were always met (or beat), and any revisions I requested were handled with genuine enthusiasm and expertise. She didn’t just build a website—she built a legacy piece that captures the heart and soul of my brand. I highly recommend her to anyone looking for a web developer who combines technical mastery with artistry and empathy. Truly 10/10.
THE AUTHOR PLATFORM KIT
Look like a bestseller
before you've published a word
The complete Squarespace template,email setup, and 7-day walkthrough
that turns passive visitors into active subscribers.
Looking for an author website that looks professional, loads fast, and actually helps you sell your book or pitch your next one?
This easy-to-edit Squarespace author website template is designed specifically for writers — whether you’re querying agents, self-publishing, or preparing for a launch.
✅ Built for Authors Who Want to Look Legit
This is not a generic website template.
It’s made for exactly what authors need most:
Home Page
A clean, cinematic introduction that instantly sets your tone.Book Page
Showcase your novel, series, or nonfiction book with a cover, synopsis, blurbs, and purchase or pre-order links.Writing Page
Highlight essays, short stories, or in-progress work to show your range and voice.About Page
Tell your author story with personality, clarity, and intention.Press Kit
Media-ready bios, high-res photos, and FAQ prompts — built to make interviews and agent pitches easy.Blog / Updates Page
Share behind-the-scenes process, essays, book news, or upcoming events. Great for SEO.Freelance Page
Optional space for editing, coaching, speaking, or services you offer beyond writing.Contact Page
A professional, simple form so agents, readers, and media can reach you directly.
⚡ Easy to Use. Fast to Launch. Fully Customizable.
Built on Squarespace (the most author-friendly platform)
Designed to be plug-and-play, you can launch in days
Includes step-by-step prompts so you know what to write on each page
Easily swap in your brand colors, photos, and fonts
Mobile Optimized – Looks beautiful on every screen.
SEO Optimized – Show up in search results with clean structure and fast load speeds.
One-time payment · Instant download · Yours forever