AuthorCanvas

Your author website.
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Pick a template, drop in your book, publish. You will be online before your coffee goes cold.

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authorcanvas.studio/dex-arroyo
Dex Arroyo's published AuthorCanvas site using the Dust Jacket template

Five templates. Five actual layouts.

Not one design in five colors. Click any of them to open the live site it is running on.

The Hardcover template as published on Theo Mensah's site
Hardcover/theo-mensah

Split hero, name on the left, cover on the right, blocky sections under it.

The Dust Jacket template as published on Dex Arroyo's site
Dust Jacket/dex-arroyo

Full-bleed image hero with your name over a scrim, magazine sections below.

The Paperback template as published on Maya Okafor's site
Paperback/maya-okafor

Friendly centered stack with a rounded photo and soft bands.

The Margin template as published on Nora Blake's site
Margin/nora-blake

Slim sticky left rail with your name and nav, content flows to the right.

The Spine template as published on Priya Shah's site
Spine/priya-shah

Oversized type, a wide book band, and a punchy grid of everything else.

Describe your book. Get a design.

Type one sentence about what you wrote. Canvas reads it and picks a template, an accent color, and a type pairing from our curated sets, then tells you why. Apply it in one click, or ignore it entirely.

a gritty cyberpunk thriller about a courier who steals the wrong memory

Try one of these to see what comes back.

Chooses from
5 templates, 6 accents, 4 type pairs
Never does
invent a color or write your copy
Takes about
three seconds, then one click to apply
Dust JacketMagentaSpace Grotesk with Geist Mono

Neon and night air. The full-bleed hero carries that mood better than a tidy stack.

Preview of the Dust Jacket template

Three steps, one sitting.

  1. 01

    Sign up

    Email and password. Your 14-day trial starts the moment you land.

  2. 02

    Add your book

    Type an ISBN and we fill the cover, title, and blurb. Add your bio, photo, and links.

  3. 03

    Go live

    Pick a look, hit publish, copy your link. Change any of it later, as often as you like.

What you get

  • A real website, not a link page

    Hero, book with buy links, about, newsletter, socials. Live at authorcanvas.studio/your-name.

  • ISBN import

    Type the ISBN, we pull the title, cover, and blurb. Edit anything we get wrong.

  • Newsletter capture

    Readers subscribe on your site. The list is yours, exportable as CSV on Canvas Plus.

  • Edit anytime

    Change a line, change the whole template, hit publish. Takes seconds, not a support ticket.

  • A badge that works for you

    Every site carries a small Made with AuthorCanvas mark linking back here. That is how other authors find us.

Stop planning the website. Publish it.

Two weeks free to build the whole thing and see it live at your own slug.

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