Firstly, great to meet you and thanks for contacting me regarding your new website. Secondly, congratulations on writing your books, that’s the first hurdle! You are officially an author! This sounds like a really great project and I would be more than happy to help you create a website that attracts readers and ‘fans’. I really love the cover and you have nailed it for the genre, so you are off to a great start! I have a good look round at the sites you sent as examples, Thanks for those! I have a great feel for what you need for this type of books/genres and I have some ideas already of how to make your website stand out and look stunning. Ultimately I will give you a design that will attract readers and fans.. and put your books front and centre, and get those readers to sign up to your mailing list! (And help sell lots of books) I build my websites exclusively on WIX which is a powerful, effective and most importantly easy to use website builder that all the authors I work with love using as it is easy to manipulate and update. I am an official Wix partner and have over 200 sites now for Authors, including clients like James Blatch and Mark Dawson ((multi-million sales of books, and best-sellers)) so I can assure you I know what I’m doing! I pride myself in sites that have great design and also help to sell books! Wix was voted the number 1 website builder in January 2022 by ‘website planet .com’ and for good reason! I have worked with every site builder you can name including Wordpress and others, and after 9 years of working in this industry I can assure you that Wix is the builder that I would recommend everyday of the week. I am more than happy to furnish you with more information about Wix if you would like it. Without being too gushing, I can’t recommend Wix highly enough.. and if ANY of the authors I’d worked with didn’t agree, I wouldn’t have 100+ five star reviews. Trust me on this.. it’s fantastic as an author platform, the best out there. Far easier than Wordpress, you have my absolute word on that. The design I will create for you will help to give you a superior marketing tool, not just for readers, but for publishers, agents and more who may look for a writer like you. You would be amazed how many publishers for example, look at a website when they asses an author’s viability, so it has to be great! I’ll make your site appeal to all parties so that you are able to present it to readers, family, publishers, agents etc etc. I have worked in the author community for over 9 years now, and I work for Mark Dawson’s Self publishing formula, plus I am a shareholder in hello books (a free book service for authors and readers) I am the course tutor for Wix on Mark Dawson’s Launchpad Course and I have appeared on the Self Publishing Show podcast no less than 6 times! I was recently asked to do a webinar for Reedsy on creating Author Websites, I’m an official Alliance of Independent authors Partner and I ALSO work with the Indie Author Magazine as one of their accredited providers - In a nutshell I know this industry!  *Please note that you have to pay Wix for hosting and will be around $100 a year. (This is separate to the price you pay me and is payable yearly to Wix) No matter what solution you find, you will have to pay a hosting fee for your website to ‘live’ on the net. I usually complete most websites within 2-5 Weeks depending on how complex it is and how much work I have on! The process will be painless. I have my systems well practiced and in place. All you need to do is send me some content to start making the website (Bio, Book Covers, photos etc) and then we are off. I will make changes to the final design until you are happy with it.. (within reason!). Once you have signed off the final design it will be over to you to update and change the website, unless you want to pay me (or someone else!) at an hourly/project or retainer rate. I will obviously make sure you are able to update your site yourself as well before we finish our collaboration. - with full recorded training.  Please do check out my reviews on Reedsy, to get a sense of my work ethic and how pleased all the authors are that I have worked with. https://reedsy.com/stuart-grant  - - with 100+ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ reviews on Reedsy I work very hard to make sure I create exactly what authors need and want, and help in every way I can. I am the highest rated designer on Reedsy, and please know you are getting a world class, premium, done for you service. My price includes:  * Full Design of your website in keeping with your genre. * Complete build of your website on Wix  * 1 or more piece of 3D cover art if needed  * Full SEO optimisation (making sure search engines can see and read your website and is ranked) * Full desktop optimisation  * Full mobile and tablet optimisation (it will look great on all devices!)  * Connecting Social media accounts  * Creating extra assets where needed (things like a Favicon - which is the little icon at the top of a browser when you look at a website)  * Free QR code for your readers to find your books * Advice and help with Branding * Free geo located links so that when you readers click on your website they will get directed to the right Amazon store * A blog if needed  * Making sure your website is designed to grow your mailing list! * Building an auto responders for subscribers - using Wix or preferred email provider - I will give you full training on how to use this if you go with the Wix (free) service ( I pride myself in not letting authors go off into the wild until they are confident how to update their site! * Advice and help on lead magnet delivery * Full, comprehensive training via zoom on how to update your site. (recorded for your use) * Fully GDPR and Cookie compliant site  * Advice on Domain names, emails accounts etc * Where I can,… tips and advice on publishing your books, all the help I can give with the best way to publish and promote your books. Please let me know if you have any questions or if you would like to know more about the process or cost. I will be happy to have a chat with you in more detail, I realise this is a chunk of money that you want to make sure gets invested with the right person, so please do ask anything. I can assure you that I will help to create a website that you are proud of and can be used as part of your marketing. . The dates on the offer correspond to the start and finish dates of the project. These are approximate and I alway try to start and finish before the dates presented. These are worse case scenarios! I Kind regards and I look forward to hearing from you. Please note if you decline this offer I will no longer be able to message you, so please, if you have questions about price, platform or process please do ask first. By the way, I love seeing book covers “in the real world” so I’ve made a few 3D versions of your book just for you to have. They are free and you can use them as and if you wish. Hope you like some of them! Do come back to me about any issues with price, dates or process and I will happily answer any questions.