I Heart a Good Thriller
A one-person thriller-book brand, built to look like a team of ten.
Overview
A personality-driven thriller and mystery book-recommendation brand, run by a single creator with a following across Instagram, TikTok, and Goodreads, needed a real home base instead of scattered social posts.
Scope of work
- Custom Next.js build
- "The Shelf" spoiler-free review system
- Author interview / live-event pages
- Author submissions intake
- Bookshop.org + PangoBooks affiliate integration
The Challenge
What we walked into.
A creator with a real following across three social platforms had no central place to send people — reviews, author interviews, and book recommendations were all living on someone else's platform.
The Approach
How we solved it.
Built a central home base around "The Shelf" — spoiler-free reviews cross-posted from social — plus dedicated pages for author interviews and live events, a submissions intake for authors and publicists to reach out directly, and a connected storefront through Bookshop.org and PangoBooks.
Outcomes
What shipped.
A real home base
Reviews, interviews, and shop unified on one branded site instead of scattered across social
A direct author pipeline
Dedicated submissions page for authors and publicists to reach out
Affiliate commerce, disclosed
Bookshop.org and PangoBooks links turn recommendations into real revenue
Highlights
- "The Shelf" spoiler-free review system
- Author interview and live-event programming
- Dedicated author-submissions intake
- Affiliate storefront via Bookshop.org and PangoBooks
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