I'll address my suggestions page by page.
HOME PAGE ("Welcome")
* I would add, right up top, a prominent image of the "Citizen Warrior" cover, formatted as a link, along with enough explanatory language to induce a user to click on it. It's what anyone coming to the site will see, first, without having to scroll. This new graphic and associated links would go directly to the "new book" page (more on that below.)
* Along with mention of your StarNews award, I would add an equally prominent mention of the Rotary Leaders in Service Legacy Award. But details, context, etc., should be reserved for the "about" or "news" pages.
* I question the value -- or at least the placement -- of what seem to be live webcam feeds, one of the Memorial Bridge and the other looking north along the downtown riverfront. These lack any explanatory information to make clear how they relate to the site and its essential information. My advice is to set up a separate page, label it something like "Cape Fear River views" or "Live looks from Downtown Wilmington," etc., and use headlines, captions, or both to remind viewers of how your work, past and present, has contributed to those views. But as they appear now on the home page, they just take up space and interrupt the natural flow of the material.
* A group of blurbs about major accomplishment needs rewriting, both to make them more consistent and to correct some factual errors. e.g., NC I-40 Inc. ended in 1984, not 1990. The legislation concerning over-the-water uses was HB 1059, not 1099. The blurb about coal is incomplete and uninformative. Same thing with the mention of LBD. These are all easy fixes, though. I'd rewrite and reformat them, so they work as teasers to more detail on other pages.
* The page footers include two inconsistent Facebook links. The first, using the FB "f" logo, doesn't even work! After fixing that, I would add to the footer at least two new items: the Rotary Legacy Award, and of course the "Citizen Warrior" book.
* The "firsts" section needs some copy editing to clean it up. For example: in several places it opens parentheses but never closes them. But I think it may be better to remove this entire section, other than a very brief blurb and link, and put it on your existing "About" page. That would simplify the home page and let it give stronger emphasis to each of the site's major components.
"NEW BOOK" PAGE
* This needs to lead with "Citizen Warrior." As I've proposed in the marketing plan, that treatment should include a good graphic of the cover, a fairly detailed promotional blurb, and a very clearly labeled link to the book's sales site, labeled something like "Buy now" or "Get your copy."
This page can also usefully include links to Dram Tree, to its upcoming "Citizen Warrior" page, to your "about the author" page, to Cape Fear Publishers' "about" page, and maybe to one or two other relevant sites, like Wilmington Downtown.
Updating this page is the most critical task, because it will be the destination for most of our marketing work: where press releases and social-media posts direct readers.
* The existing mention of "DARE to Dream" needs reworking, starting with a similar treatment of explanatory text and a "Buy now" link. (Is there a way to buy the current edition online? Or is it strictly "see the author with some cash money" for now?) Also, something is funky about the graphic, which isn't displaying how the book actually looks. If, until it gets reformatted and reissued, the DARE book isn't really available for sale, it might be best just to hide this part of the page, with the idea of reviving it later.
"ABOUT" PAGE
As noted above, I would move most of the detailed info about you and your accomplishments from the home page, such as "firsts," to this page, retaining just "teaser" blurbs, maybe with graphics on the home page, to direct users here.
"HISTORY" PAGE
This needs to have your more recent awards (such as Rotary Legacy) added, as well as the publication of "Citizen Warrior."
"SPRINGBROOK FARMS" PAGE
This is part of the site's top-level navigation -- that is, the link appears in the site's header, with other major links, at the top of every page -- which I think is a mistake. Better: link to this from the "News" page. See more on this below. Having a standing navigation button that concerns a feature about any single business doesn't really make sense.
"NEWS" PAGE
The needs updates for stories published since 2019. Do you happen to have a list of stuff that's been in the media during the past five years? If so, new links can be added. If not, it may be necessary to re-think this entire page, since the stuff on it can't be called "new" anymore.