Create a new website for an independent publishing company

http://www.accessconsciousnesspublishing.com

At Access Consciousness Publishing, we produce empowering and inspiring books on the creative edge of consciousness.

Website promotes books published by ACP to public, facilitates bulk ordering and engages Authors to be possibly published by ACP.

http://www.accessconsciousnesspublishing.com/

Very light, in shades of blues or turquoise. Lines can be darker blue.
What's we've got now is OK, but it just looks a bit bland - like someone slapped our logo onto it. I'd like it to be clean and elegant, but alive.

Words people used to describe what they like/desire in a website design for Access Consciousness:
Simple
Serene
Clean
Peace
Space
Easy to digest (content)
Easy to navigate
Not confusing
Not too serious (playful, magical, possibilities, inspiring)
Not too busy (peace, space)
Fun
Easy (to use, to find information;classes, products, people, events by location)
Malleable (A site that allows us to grow and change over time - with people, content, imagery etc.)
Appeal to different types of visitors (new people, media, return visitors, facilitators, different cultures, people seeking info, people landing there after hearing on media -- and ease with moving them through what’s next and what their options are)

● Wordpress, need only Home and Internal

Home page:
Moving Slider
Book Covers on the left with title, sliding up and down as the mouse moves
Below Slider, Paragraph with Video
Search area

What else?

Internal Page:
Title
Image
Text
Below text: Images of book
Left column: Newsletter subscription
Image of something related to topic (like other books)
Audio player if we have an interview with the author (can be done via SoundCloud, like on my homepage at badassofconsciousness.com)

It would be cool if the site remembered what people looked at last time they came?

Not too busy. Not too complicated.