I’m an emerging author of suspenseful fiction laced with dark humor and I need a clean, modern-minimalistic WordPress site that acts like a digital business card. My domain and hosting are active: what I’m missing is the design, initial build, and a bit of creative guidance to make everything cohesive. Scope of work • Structure: six pages—Home, About, Books, Short Fiction, Curated by Costiuc, and Contact. • Design tone: modern and minimalistic, equally polished on mobile and desktop. • Visuals: refine my existing logo and adapt my current primary colour palette so it feels intentional on screen. Accent and background shades can follow naturally from your recommendations. • Home page focus: an at-a-glance author introduction plus a prominent newsletter sign-up that funnels visitors toward my mailing list. • Content management: once the framework is in place I need to be able to edit text, images, and book listings myself through the standard WordPress dashboard—no complicated page-builder lock-in. Deliverables 1. Installed and configured WordPress theme (free or premium, whichever best fits the brief). 2. Customised color scheme and typography that harmonise with the updated logo. 3. Fully built pages with placeholder text where final copy is still pending. 4. Responsive layouts tested on major browsers and common phone sizes. 5. Newsletter form embedded and functioning. 6. A short Loom or written guide showing me how to update posts, add new books, and tweak colors in future. I’ll share examples of websites I admire, along with the draft logo files and palette references, as soon as we start. Looking forward to collaborating with someone who can translate my voice into an elegant online presence. Current website: https://nikitacostiuc.com/ (I don't like this color scheme or set up. This was what AI produced.) Current newsletter: https://costiuc.substack.com/ (I like the color scheme.) Other author websites that I like: https://www.anthonyhorowitz.com/ https://www.michaelconnelly.com/ https://michaelgrumley.com/