Author Websites that Convert: A Checklist
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A mug of tea goes cool beside your keyboard. Your homepage glows in the dim room, book covers lined like postcards, a smiling photo tucked beneath. You scroll and hover and squint, trying to see it as a stranger might—the way a curious reader would with the train screeching into a station and a thumb hovering over the back button. What happens in those first five seconds?