What's New at AuthorLoft — May 2026

May was all about helping your author site look better, rank better, and get easier to set up. Here's what we shipped.

🎨 Stronger branding for your site

We expanded your design options. Premium authors can now fine-tune their site with a custom accent colour picker, and we moved our genre-inspired colour palettes down to the Standard plan — so more authors can give their site a look that matches their books.

🔍 Better SEO for your content

Your words deserve to be found. We added SEO controls to your blog posts — custom SEO titles, meta descriptions, and focus keywords — plus canonical URLs and social-share (Open Graph) images across your site. Small touches that help search engines and social platforms show your work at its best.

🚀 A smoother start

New to AuthorLoft? Getting set up is easier than ever with our guided 3-step setup wizard that walks you from sign-up to a live site in minutes — add your bio, your first book, and you're published.

🧰 Author tools & resources

We launched a new Resources page — a curated directory of tools, services, and partners to help you write, publish, and market your books. A handy starting point whenever you're looking for the right tool for the job.

🌟 Author spotlights

We gave authors more visibility by featuring real AuthorLoft sites front-and-centre on our homepage — another way readers (and fellow authors) can discover the work being published here.

Thanks for building with us. Keep an eye on this page — there's plenty more on the way.

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— The AuthorLoft Team