David Stokes

David’s website had been built years ago and never really looked after. It had stopped moving, and it carried a dated, 2008 look that no longer matched the books it was meant to sell.

David writes Anglo-Saxon historical fiction, and Sermon of the Wolf, the third book in his arc, was due in October 2026. It was time to step up: a site worth visiting, a social presence, and early sign-ups for the book before it landed.

The new site lives at davidstokesauthor.com.

The site tells David’s story around one idea, novels that don’t invent history, but let it speak. It covers his three-book Anglo-Saxon arc, a journal, talks and events, press, and a waitlist for the new book. The workflow was AI-forward on the code side, with every design decision made by me. There was no template and no page builder, and I built the entire site myself.

• Website build: designed and built from scratch, with early book sign-ups at the centre of it.
• SEO: search-ready pages, with titles, sitemap and canonical tags set up for David and his books.
• Upkeep: timely updates and new announcements, so the site keeps moving.
• Instagram reels: five edits for his page, telling the stories behind the history.

The new book sits front and centre, with the waitlist banner directly under the hero.

Five reels I edited for David’s Instagram page, each telling one story from the history behind his books.