A professional author website is the only digital property you own. Social media accounts can be shut down, sales pages can disappear, distributors can change their policies. Your website is the stable center of your writing career — your headquarters. It is also the most important marketing tool you have.

If you want readers to find you, remember you, and trust you, you must give your book and your identity a home.
And that home needs a front door that belongs to you.

There are three mission-critical functions your website must perform for you:

1. Tell readers who you are
2. Show your books clearly and professionally
3. Give a simple way to buy the book

Why Should Your Website Sell Directly to Readers?

Because direct sales mean direct revenue — and direct reader relationships.

Example:
If your paperback is $16.99…with a print cost of $8.02
Amazon typically takes a minimum of 40% of retail before printing (that’s $6.80 for Amazon)
It leaves a pre printing royalty of $10.20. After printing, you might see $2 per book

But if you sell from your own ecommerce page:
You order author copies (print cost only)
Amazon or IngramSparks prints and ships
You keep the buyer’s full payment minus shipping + ~2.9% card fees
Profit per book can rise to $8–$10+
Same reader. Same book. Same printer. Same shipping. Double the profit.
Most importantly, the reader becomes your customer — not Amazon’s customer.

You also develop a mailing list for newsletter, marketing, new release updates, and more.

For only $50 a year, Wilder Creek Publishing will design and host the e-commerce website for authors. 

We also provide inbound and outbound backlinks between the website, the WCP website, Google Books, blogs and reviews by Advanced Readers on Goodreads and other review sites for strong SEO and AI-SEO to keep your books visible and discoverable.

We will provide QR Codes for the end of the book to send readers to the review sites; another at the end of the excerpt of the sneak peek of your next book to order directly from your website; and another at the end of the Also By page to lead readers to all of your books.

You only need to check orders, fulfill them, and collect your sales revenue.