Zenpage

Zenpage is a free website builder for authors, designed around what writers actually need online: somewhere to show their books, connect with readers, and not pay $20/month for the privilege.

You sign up, pick a template and color, fill in your details, and publish. About fifteen minutes. There's no page builder to wrestle with, no plugin system, no theme customizer with 200 settings. It's a form. You fill it in. Your site goes live.

The templates were built after studying how real author websites work and what readers expect when they look someone up. Book pages with covers, descriptions, and buy links. Author bio. Blog. Newsletter signup that plugs into Mailchimp, ConvertKit, Substack, or Beehiiv.

Technical stuff happens automatically. SEO, image optimization, CDN, free SSL, mobile layouts, RSS. Pages load in under a second. You don't configure any of it. Publish at yourname.zenpage.io or connect a domain you own.

It's free. Not temporarily, not with conditions. Author websites are static pages: text, images, links. Hosting costs almost nothing. Zenpage was built by a reader who thought it was absurd that authors pay $15-40/month for generic builders when the real cost is pennies per site.

If you write books and need a website, this gets you one in fifteen minutes for zero dollars. Doesn't matter if it's your first or your thirtieth publication.