Author Websites Editing and Proofreading Services

A reader finishes book three of a series, likes it, and goes to the author's website to find out what to read next. The books are listed alphabetically by title, three of them are in the same series and two are not, one is a prequel, and nothing says so. They guess, guess wrong, start with the standalone, and do not come back.

We edit author websites and the pages on them — book and series pages, reading order and where-to-buy information, newsletter sign-up copy, about and press pages, events and appearance listings, rights and contact pages for professional enquiries, and the short blurbs reused across retailers and social profiles. Our editors work on a site whose visitors have already decided they like the author.

The reading order and where-to-buy page is the one page an author's site exists to serve, and its failure is a bibliography where a route belongs. A visitor on an author's site is a converted reader looking for the next purchase, and the site's only job is to make that easy. We work through these so the series are separated and ordered by reading order rather than by publication date, since these differ for most series with a prequel and readers pick the wrong entry point; so each series says where to start in a sentence that appears before the list, because a reader scanning a page of covers wants an instruction and not an inventory; so a prequel is placed with advice about whether to read it first or later, given that authors have a view on this and readers cannot guess it; so standalones are separated from series entirely, as mixing them is the commonest reason a reader begins in the wrong place; so every book links to somewhere it can actually be bought, in the reader's own country where possible, with the library and audiobook options included rather than only the largest retailer; so anything out of print or unavailable says so rather than linking to a dead page; so a forthcoming book carries a date or an honest "not yet scheduled"; and so the newsletter offer sits next to the last book in the series, where a reader has just run out. Pages built this way sell the next book.

Everything you send is treated in confidence, including unpublished work, sales information and rights correspondence. We are editors rather than publicists, booksellers or agents, and we offer no view on publishing, sales or retail arrangements. What we can do is tell a reader what to read next.