Anessa Books

05/29/2020

Tonight's the night! Don't miss my talk on Accountability! Message me for details!

05/20/2020

I'm going to be presenting a talk next Friday, May 29th called "Accountability: Six techniques to get the words written and the book done." Message me if you're interested in attending!

05/11/2020

I'm thinking of offering an online (Zoom) class (cost is only $40). Would you be interested in...
-- Microsoft Word for Writers
-- Self-Publishing (emphasis on formatting)
-- Writing Craft for beginning authors
Let me know in the comments below!

05/10/2020

Inside Your Character’s Head|Meredith Bond

This week's blog post is on getting into your character's head through their backstory. https://meredithbond.com/inside-your-characters-head

I think it’s become generally agreed that the best books are those where the characters are three-dimensional people who are engaging, likable, and someone the reader really wants to spend time wit…

05/04/2020

4 Newbie Writer Mistakes that Can Derail a Great Book Idea

Anne R. Allen always has the best blogs! Here’s this week’s. https://annerallen.com/2020/05/newbie-writer-mistakes-derail-book-idea/

Newbie Writer Mistakes are so often the same. We want validation as soon as we get a few 100 words on paper. Bad idea. Here are 4 things not to do.

05/02/2020

Intertwined books|Meredith Bond

Writing a series? This might help...

I’m a rather single-minded person, and by that, I mean that I have trouble focusing on one thing at a time. My daughter finds it impossible to not do at least two things at once—she has to have noi…

05/02/2020

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04/27/2020

Keep Writing|Meredith Bond

Are you tired of everyone telling you not to work in these troubled times? Here are some thoughts on the matter that might help... https://meredithbond.com/keep-writing/

Almost every day my Facebook feed and my blog list on Feedly have new articles telling me that “it’s okay if you aren’t able to work/focus/write”. Don’t expect too much of yourself in these times. …

10/22/2019

A Writer's Journal by Meredith Bond (Paperback) - Lulu

Writers, if you need a journal to help you through NaNoWriMo, I've got exactly what you need and with this coupon (LULU10) you can get 10% off!!

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09/30/2019

My blog post this week is all about Planner Fest--a great example of collaboration, which is so important for all authors.https://meredithbond.com/planning-journaling-and-collaboration/

09/11/2019

A Writer’s Journal

In my effort to help writers with accountability... https://meredithbond.com/a-writers-journal/

I’ve been learning a good deal recently about writing journal and writing planners. There’s a difference! A planner is a book where you have pre-designed organizing tools, like in my favorite Ultim…

08/14/2019

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08/12/2019

Carving out time to write

How do you find the time to write? https://wp.me/p7Yj3q-1FE

Summer is hard. Life is hard. There are so many things distracting us from working, from writing. Personally, I’ve been traveling and readjusting to being back in the US (we’re just here for one mo…

07/15/2019

The difference between an editor and writing coach

Do you know about writing coaching? I'm talking about it on my blog this week. https://meredithbond.com/the-difference-between-an-editor-and-writing-coach/

I realized something this week. I’ve been following the wrong career path for the past year! It’s crazy! About a year ago, I decided to move into editing. A few of my formatting clients asked me to…

07/01/2019

Classifying Yourself

Last week I posted about D&D Character Analysis. This week we turn that toward ourselves!

Last week I told you all about this cool way players of Dungeons & Dragons classify their characters based on how well they follow laws or rules (lawful/neutral/chaotic) and what sort of person…

06/28/2019

Classifying Your Characters

I've been very silly and haven't been posting links to my blog here. That's going to end!
Here is last week's blog post. Lovers of D&D will get it right away, everyone else will learn something new and interesting. :-)
I blog every Sunday on writing and self-publishing topics. https://meredithbond.com/classifying-your-characters/

Involved in all this complication is a really interesting way of classifying a person based on how law abiding they are (lawful, neutral, or chaotic) and what sort of person they are in general (go…

06/28/2019

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01/25/2019

Workshops |

I'll be teaching Word for Writers at the Contemporary Romance Writer's chapter where I'll be showing you how to format your book for print-on-demand and much more! http://contemporaryromance.org/workshops/#Word

The tools needed to respectfully portray characters dealing with Post-traumatic Stress Disorder. This is a broad layman’s overview – who, where, what, when, why, and how – of PTSD’s effects on individuals, families, acquaintances, interpersonal relationships, careers and other situations.

07/25/2018

Anybody in Canada, Australia or New Zealand? You can now publish your books on B&N!

07/06/2018

Remember, if you’ve got questions I’m here to answer them!

05/30/2018

contemporaryromance.org

I’ll be teaching my self-publishing course at the end of July at the Contemplation Romance Writer’s chapter (online). http://contemporaryromance.org/workshops/#SelfPubABC

01/29/2018

Sign Up for Word for Writers On-Line Seminar

Last chance to sign up for an on-line seminar on Word for Writers and how to format for CreateSpace! Don't miss it! https://goo.gl/forms/q4cReqlrZ5a178uk1

This seminar will be held at 3pm EST on January 31st and run through a Zoom "meeting". You'll receive a link to the meeting the day before. If you haven't received it by the evening of the 30th, please don't hesitate to email me at [email protected]. Thanks!

01/14/2018

So none of you have to curse Word any longer, I’m going to be hosting a seminar online— Word for Writers. If you’re interested, contact me!

10/19/2017

New - Microsoft Word for Writers with Award-Winning Author Meredith Bond

I'm excited! I'm going to be teaching a new course in a few weeks: Microsoft Word for Writers. Do your Word skills need a little refreshing? Join me at Savvy Authors! https://savvyauthors.com/Community/index.php?resources/microsoft-word-for-writers-with-award-winning-author-meredith-bond.573/

Don't fear Microsoft Word anymore!

04/15/2017

Embedding a font for Drop Caps

Here's the promised video! I'll post written directions as well.

04/15/2017

I've been having great fun embedding a font to use in the drop caps. It's a bit trickier than just using a font in a heading style, but so worth it! Anyone want me to post the instructions on how to do it? I'd be happy to share!

12/25/2016

Well, I didn't manage to get my beginning Jutoh video created and up on Youtube as I'd planned, and I'm very sorry for that. I will do my best to get that done this week--although it might be a little trickier with my children at home, but they can be quiet, so I'll give it a shot. Once it's up, I'll be sure to tell you all.
In the meantime, a very happy holiday to all!

11/07/2016

Do you know the difference between page breaks and section breaks? What about when to use each?
Use page breaks in your Smashwords formatting and when preparing your document for Jutoh; section breaks only go into your CreateSpace document after you've copied your book into the template (or adjusted the page size to the size of the book you want).

11/01/2016

Anessa Books

Have you been wanting to learn how to format with Jutoh? Now you can! I've got a new course where I show you, step-by-step, how to prepare you document, import it into Jutoh and then format it as an epub and mobi file.
I cover basic formatting, conditional formatting so you can create a different book for each vendor, and embedding pictures and fonts.
Check it out at http://anessa-books.teachable.com/

11/01/2016

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10/31/2016

Coming soon!! An on-line course to teach you how to format your own books with Jutoh. :-o

10/18/2016

Learn how to format your ebook with Jutoh! I'm going to be offering an on-line course beginning October 24th. Just contact me for further information!

09/21/2016

Jutoh Ebook Editor For Windows, Mac and Linux. Create Epub and Kindle books, Epub Converter For Mac And PC, Epub Software For Mac And PC, Epub Creator For Mac And PC, Kindle Epub Editor Software, iPad Epub Creator Software, Epub Editing

My new project: putting together an on-line class just on how to use Jutoh. Whose interested? Anything in particular you'd like me to cover? http://www.jutoh.com

Ebook editor, convertor and creator software for Mac, Windows and Linux. Convert to ebooks for Kindle, iBooks, iPhone, iPad, Kobo, Nook.

07/26/2016

How many italicized words do you put into your books? Have you ever thought about it? I do all the time because when I format a book, I clean it first which deletes all formatting including italics.
In order to make sure I don't lose any, I first mark all the italicized words with a simply search and replace (click in the "Find" box, click "More" at the bottom of the replace window, font, and then italics. In the Replace window put in "^&". This places a before and a after all italicized words and phrases).
I then run the document through a text program like Notepad++ (on a PC) or TextWrangler (on the Mac), which strips out all formatting. Paste the book back into Word and then search for all my codes and re-italicize everything by hand.
If there are 400+ italicized words and phrases (and yes, I've had 80,000 words books with that many!) that's going to take a while. :-( So, think before you italicize! (It might say something if you feel the need to italicize that much--how well is your writing working that the emphasis isn't clear? Sorry...)

07/19/2016

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What self-publishing blogs do you read? What info are you looking for there? Yes, I'm asking so that I can get a good idea of what to write on my blog!
Wait! You did know that I've got a blog on writing and self-publishing that I post to every Saturday, right? Check it out! http://meredithbond.com/blog/posts/

Setting the scene: A sunny day at the beach, my umbrella angled just so, a cool drink in one hand (frozen margarita, please… thank you), the newest book from Sarah Maclean/Aubrey Wynne/Miranda Neville/Cathy Maxwell in the other. -OR- A cool, rainy evening, the fire is lit, my comfy chair is pulled u...