Simon Rook: An Author Website for a Book Launch

Readers arriving from a search or a social post should understand what the book offers and be able to buy it within a click or two. The site also needed a way to reach the author for reader mail, press, and rights.

The colors and type come straight from the book cover, so the site and the book feel like one object. Navy fields, bronze accents, and bone-white text match the cover art. A condensed display face echoes the cover title, and a serif carries the reading copy. All fonts are self-hosted.

• A home page that introduces the author and features the current book
• A book page with the description, reader promises, the full chapter structure, a note to readers, and a Kindle buy link
• A catalogue where adding one entry publishes a new book's page, card, structured data, and sitemap entry
• An about page and a contact form protected by Cloudflare Turnstile
• A privacy policy that describes exactly what the site collects

Every page is static and served from Cloudflare's network. A single function handles the contact form and sends each message by email.

• Book, author, and breadcrumb structured data, all checked against the Schema.org validator with no errors
• Book-specific share cards for social posts, and sitemap dates taken from each page's last change
• Google Analytics that loads only after a visitor opts in, alongside cookieless Cloudflare Web Analytics
• A content security policy and other security headers