Your Link to the World

I think it’s rather fitting that when you first create a website, the default message is “Hello, World!” I’ve had a website since 2012. It started out very basic with just a list of my books and my bio. It’s slowly grown since then. First with blogging (started in...

Reviving an old book

If you’ve been publishing for a while, it’s possible that you’ve got some old, backlist books that could use an update. But how do you go about doing it and what should you consider when you face this task? I’ve recently been re-reading one of the first books I...

How many hats do you wear?

We all wear many hats: parent, spouse, co-worker, employee, neighbor, etc. But as a self-publisher, we wear quite a few simply in pursuit of that one goal. We are a writer creating engaging fiction; we are a publisher putting together our finished work and ensuring...

So many pieces, it’s easy to get lost

I recently moved my domains (I’ve got two: meredithbond.com and anessabooks.com, which points back to the first one) and web hosting to a new company. I wanted them both together and I knew I was probably overpaying. Technically, both of these things are...

Prioritizing and Organizing

As I think my regular readers have figured out, I’ve recently been fooling around with a lot of software recently—organizers, to do lists, and calendar apps—all in an effort to organize my life and my writing. And then my daughter, who has begun proofreading...

Marketing Feelings

“Art is a container for your feelings.” Jane Friedman, according to David Gaughran. We all know that the best books make you feel. It doesn’t matter whether those feelings are happiness, sadness, excitement, anguish, or disappointment (unless it’s disappointment that...