built in seo tools
syncs with wordpress blogs
amazing showit support team
designed to converT
responsive mobile design
No coding required!
Drag & Drop platform
completely customizable
Built by a web designer
Includes 15+ pages
Your words already carry meaning and heart—and your website should reflect that. Azalea Alcott is a Showit website template thoughtfully designed for authors who value clarity, elegance, and intention. With its classic, literary feel and refined layout, this template gives your words the space they deserve and the confidence to share them.
$727
Azalea Alcott
author website template
structure, strategy, and design included
Polished enough to make you look established and flexible enough to make it completely yours. Azalea Alcott Author Template gives you a beautiful, strategic foundation that can grow with you, from your first book to your fiftieth.
And because it's already designed for you as an author, you don't have to spend your precious writing time staring at a blank screen wondering where to begin.
No coding. No starting from scratch. No sacrificing your weekend to learn web design. Instead, you’ll have a page-by-page tutorial video from me, the designer, walking you through the template. Plus, you’ll have access to a video tutorial library so you’ll know how to make edits and updates as your career grows.
Because you’re not just
You’re building
building a website
an author platform.
pages this template includes:
Your purchase of the Azalea Alcott Author template includes all of the pages below as well as the Single Page version of the template! Customize and fine-tune them to meet any need your website might have. Plus, you can duplicate sections (and entire pages) to add as many pages to your website as you need! This Showit website template is made to support your growth.
This template has it all
A checklist of best practices to set up SEO on your new Showit website.
seo checklist
Video and written tutorials gathered together to help you customize with confidence.
Showit tutorial library
A guide to walk you through a successful website launch with a focus on growth!
pre-launch Guide
All Template Purchases Include:
No Need To Worry About What Comes Next.
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I love my new site, and it’s so easy to make my own edits!
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I could not be happier with my new website!
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With my template, I went from no website to booking clients in days.
Recommended By Creatives at Work
These author website templates are structurally designed to support your marketing goals. Now your author website can get to work building your audience, your platform, and your career.
Turn Your Marketing Into Momentum
The SEO Guide and Pre-Launch Checklist included in your template purchase give your site a strong foundation. Then, Showit walks you through connecting your domain so you can launch and celebrate!
Launch with Confidence
Showit makes customizing your new website so easy! Drag and drop your brand colors and fonts, your images, your book purchase links and more. The author website template structures the design, and you make it unique.
Customize Your Site
Your website template purchase comes with an in-depth, page-by-page tutorial video. This tutorial (as well as those in the tutorial library) help you learn how to edit and customize your new website.
Follow Your Video Tutorial
Follow the instructions sent to your email upon purchasing. These will walk you through how to install your new author website template. (Psst: Use this link to save a little money and get 30 free days of Showit.)
Install Your Showit Template
Peruse our purposefully built author website templates and chose the one that feels the most like the author brand you’re building. (Psst: Sign up to get the discount code before purchasing.)
Choose Your Author Website Template
Your new author website, and it’s simpler than you think.
How It Works
Unlike other website platforms, Showit allows you to design your mobile site independently of your desktop design. That means the author template you purchased looks incredible no matter what tech readers are using.
Attention To Mobile Design
The key to traffic is to be easily found by readers and robots. I’ve taken care of great design and Showit has made great SEO possible. Everything you need to be found by Google and other search engines.
Designed With SEO In Mind
I've worked on websites on every major platform, and none make websites as easy to change and modify as Showit. You can drag and drop photos, text, and videos wherever you want on your website - no guides, no restrictions, no headaches.
So Easy To Customize
Why Showit Is The Best Platform For Your Author Website
showit makes it simple
You’re building a serious writing career and want your website to reflect the author you’re becoming.
You want your website to feel thoughtful, polished, and distinctly yours—not like another cookie-cutter author site.
You have a clear voice and point of view, and you want your online presence to communicate that before anyone reads a single word of your books.
You’re growing your readership through social media, newsletters, events, or word of mouth—and want one polished place to bring it all together.
You want to build a deeper connection with readers while also presenting yourself professionally to editors, publishers, booksellers, media, and event organizers.
You’re thinking beyond your next book and want a website that can support the long, evolving career you’re building.
You’re building a serious writing career and want your website to reflect the author you’re becoming.
You want your website to feel thoughtful, polished, and distinctly yours—not like another cookie-cutter author site.
You have a clear voice and point of view, and you want your online presence to communicate that before anyone reads a single word of your books.
You’re growing your readership through social media, newsletters, events, or word of mouth—and want one polished place to bring it all together.
You want to build a deeper connection with readers while also presenting yourself professionally to editors, publishers, booksellers, media, and event organizers.
You’re thinking beyond your next book and want a website that can support the long, evolving career you’re building.
Azalea Alcott Author Template Is For You If:
frequently asked questions
faqs
Because this is a digital product, I do not offer any refunds or exchanges.
You can read the full Refund and Purchasing Policy here. By purchasing a website template you agree to the terms and conditions of this website and sale.
Do you offer refunds if I change my mind later?
Yes. Showit is an excellent choice for authors who want a highly customizable, visually sophisticated website without needing to code. Its drag-and-drop editor gives you control over your site's design, while WordPress powers the blog functionality. Showit also includes tools for managing page-level SEO, so your website can be optimized for search.
Is Showit a good website builder for author websites?
If you're serious about building a long-term author career, having your own website gives you a central, professional home that you control. Social media can help readers discover you, but your website can bring everything together: your books, biography, newsletter, events, press, blog, contact information, and links to purchase your books. It's the place you can send readers no matter where they first discover you.
Do authors need a website?
A professional author website should make it easy for readers to discover your books, learn about you, connect with you, and stay up to date. Depending on your career, useful pages can include Home, About, Books, individual Book pages, Events, Contact, Press, Media Kit, Newsletter, Blog, and more. These author templates include 15+ thoughtfully designed pages so you don't have to figure out what your author website needs from scratch.
What pages should an author website have?
Yes. Your author website can become the home base for your book marketing. Instead of sending readers from Instagram to one link, podcast listeners to another, and event attendees somewhere else, your website gives all of your marketing efforts somewhere to land. You can showcase your books, collect email subscribers, share events and press, publish blog content, and give readers an easy next step.
Can an author website help with book marketing?
Absolutely. These author website templates are designed to grow with your author career. You can showcase your current books, add new titles as they're released, and create individual book pages with your cover, description, reviews, purchase links, and other information. Whether you're launching your debut or building a growing backlist, your website can evolve with you.
Can I add multiple books to an author website template?
Yes. Showit websites can have WordPress-powered blogs. Showit lets you design your blog's appearance using its visual editor, while WordPress handles your actual blog posts. That means you can have a beautifully designed author website and a full blogging platform working together. And, there are video tutorials to walk you through how to do all of it!
Can I blog on a Showit author website?
Yes. Showit gives you the tools you need to set up the foundational SEO elements of your website, including page titles, meta descriptions, URLs, indexing settings, headings, and image alt text. Your results will ultimately depend on your content, keyword strategy, links, and other SEO factors, but you can absolutely build an SEO-friendly author website on Showit.
Is Showit good for SEO?
Absolutely! These author website templates are a starting point, an infrastructure you can make your own. You can customize the colors, fonts, photos, copy, buttons, links, layouts, and more to make the site feel like your own author brand. You can also add, remove, duplicate, and rearrange sections as your website evolves.
Can I customize a Showit template?
Nope! You don't need to know how to code to customize these author website templates. Showit's visual, drag-and-drop editor lets you change your text, images, colors, fonts, layouts, and more without writing code. The whole point of starting with a template is that the design work has already been done—you get to make it yours. If you do want to add code to connect a newsletter or quiz, there's a video tutorial for that!
Do I need to know how to code to use a Showit template?
Yes! You can use your existing domain with Showit. You don't have to buy a brand-new domain just because you're moving to Showit. Your domain can remain registered with your current provider; you'll simply connect it to your Showit site by updating your DNS settings. And Showit makes it so easy to connect your domain to your new website!
Can I use my own domain with Showit?
Yes! You can use your existing domain with Showit. You don't have to buy a brand-new domain just because you're moving to Showit. Your domain can remain registered with your current provider; you'll simply connect it to your Showit site by updating your DNS settings. And Showit makes it so easy to connect your domain to your new website!
Can I use my own domain with Showit?
The Azalea Alcott Author Website Template includes 15+ professionally designed pages created specifically with authors in mind, including Home, About, Books, Book Info, Events, Contact, Resources, Press, Media Kit, Coming Soon, and Blog. You'll also receive the Single Page version, pre-launch guide, tutorial library, and SEO checklist.
What is included with the Azalea Alcott Showit template?
Once you purchase Azalea Alcott, you'll receive everything you need to get started right away. You'll install the template in your Showit account using the included Share Key, then customize the design with your own photos, book covers, copy, colors, fonts, and links. You'll also have access to the included tutorials, pre-launch guide, and SEO checklist to help you get your website ready to launch.
