by Katherine Magpie | Oct 13, 2026 | Web Design
If you’re building your first author website, it’s remarkably easy to convince yourself you need everything. A blog. A shop. Character art. Seventeen links to seventeen retailers. An interactive map of the fictional town where your grumpy small-town...
by Katherine Magpie | Sep 24, 2026 | Web Design
You’ve spent months—or years—writing the book. You’ve agonized over the cover, rewritten the blurb seventeen times, scheduled your newsletter, made the graphics, and perhaps developed a slightly unhealthy relationship with your preorder dashboard. Then launch day...
by Katherine Magpie | Sep 18, 2026 | Author Branding, Web Design
A romance author color palette is the small, intentional family of colors that readers repeatedly encounter across your website, social graphics, newsletter, launch materials, and other pieces of your author brand. The right palette does more than make those pieces...
by Katherine Magpie | Sep 17, 2026 | Typography, Web Design
Romantic typography is more than a script font and a blush color palette. It is the deliberate use of letterforms, spacing, hierarchy, and contrast to create a feeling of intimacy, warmth, elegance, longing, or playfulness. The strongest romantic typography choices...
by Katherine Magpie | Sep 16, 2026 | Author Branding, Web Design
Author branding integration is the strategic placement and design of personal brand elements throughout a website layout to build recognition, trust, and a stronger connection with readers. For authors, that means more than dropping a headshot onto an About page and...
