About QUARTO Book Launch

QUARTO is an author website template for authors, writers, novelists and poets. Launch a single book or show a whole shelf, let visitors read a sample chapter, and collect pre-orders, newsletter signups and event bookings. For self-publishers, ebooks, memoirs, non-fiction and publishers.

Read a sample chapter: The Galley

A live typesetting engine flows your chapter into paginated book pages: drop caps, proper measure, a 3D page turn you can drag, night mode. Paste a chapter into the CMS and it re-typesets itself. No other author template lets visitors read the book.

One book or a whole shelf

Add one novel and the site reads as a book launch page; add several and it becomes an author bookshelf, each book with its own detail page, all from the CMS.

Printed book design

Warm uncoated paper and real book typography (Fraunces, Literata, Courier Prime), folios, running heads, a colophon.

Signature moments

The Impress: a lens reveals the typescript under the printed cover. The Stack: your books ride over each other as full-bleed panels. The Survey: the novel's map draws itself as you scroll.

Features

3 CMS collections: Books, Praise (reviews and blurbs) and Events (readings and signings). Book pages generate automatically

Colours, copy, fonts, covers and author photos change from the Styles panel and CMS

Start Here owner's manual

Readable on desktop, tablet and phone, 60fps

Best for

Authors and novelists

Fiction and non-fiction writers, poets

Self-published and indie authors

Ebook and audiobook launches

Memoirs and children's books

Publishers, small presses and literary agents