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We've got a lot of projects reaching the final stretch at Beyond Writing! Can't wait to share more but we're wrapping up several novel projects: the first in a sci-fi series, a middle-grade adventure, and a travel mystery.
We look forward to moving these projects ever closer to publication and introducing you to the authors behind them.
In the meantime, all we can share is a thought piece on writer's block by one of our in-house writers. Have a read and keep us in mind if you have any fiction writing projects on your table. We'd love to help.
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Beyond Writing is a team of professional writers collaborating to take your idea above and beyond. From drafting and organizing to researching and editing, we offer an array of services in a variety of creative mediums, including: Books, Articles, Podcasts, YouTube, Documentaries, and more.
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Before/after: from busy and cluttered to the website a Women's Prize longlisted novelist deserves 📚
The before: years of accumulated content. Interviews from 2022 next to news from last week. Three fonts per page. Podcast lists that scrolled forever. A shop button shouting over the books. Everything on the site was true — there was just five years of it, all at once, all at the same volume.
The after: an author website that breathes.
✨ One typographic system: Avenir for the headlines, Baskerville for everything else, set like the pages of a well-made book
✨ A warm parchment palette with one single orange accent, used only where it earns its place
✨ Awards and roles typeset like the prize page of a hardback, not a CV
✨ Every book with its cover, a short synopsis, two quotes and quiet buy links — nothing sold, everything findable
✨ And a second, connected brand for her writing courses: teal, white, plain-spoken, where a writer can find a course, see the price, and enrol without friction
The design brief in one line: warm without being folksy, confident without being corporate. Readers should feel at home. Nobody should feel sold to.
Turns out the highest form of author-website design is subtraction. Her books were always the main event. The site just needed to get out of their way.
What's the best "less but better" transformation you've shipped? 👇
Her books were always the main event, the site just needed to get out of their way is such a good line, wish more clients believed that. My best subtraction moment was cutting a client's homepage from six sections to two, conversions went up almost immediately once we stopped competing with ourselves.
Every story begins with a single page.
I've been building something special for the Squarespace Make It Real Challenge.
The Last Library is a cinematic storytelling experience where every chapter opens a forgotten world.
This is just the beginning.
Coming soon.
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can't wait to see the finished build!
The Future in Black was built for Joy Fennell to hold a story that needed more than a standard portfolio site. Our goal from the start was to make the site feel archival and alive at once, part digital exhibit, part living brand presence, so every design decision was made to support that feeling rather than just present information.
We started with structure: how should a visitor move through this content, and what pace should that movement have? That question shaped our use of Finish Layer's block animations. Text reveals on scroll, so the story unfolds in beats instead of arriving all at once, closer to reading a book than scrolling a website. Images use hover interactions to invite a second look without pulling focus from the words around them.
From there we layered in movement. Shapes transform and shift position as the visitor scrolls, adding depth and a sense of motion that a static layout couldn't carry. This was the piece that took the most iteration, getting the timing and scale of these transforms to feel intentional rather than gimmicky meant testing several versions before landing on the current pacing.
Typography carried a lot of the brand's identity, so we uploaded Million and Inter Tight rather than relying on Squarespace's native font library. Million gives the site its editorial voice in headlines, and Inter Tight keeps body copy clean and legible against it.
The result is a site built on Squarespace's foundation, using Finish Layer's native tools alongside custom CSS and JS, pushed toward something that reads as custom, editorial, and specific to one person's story rather than a repeatable formula.
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