Watch This Space

Are you ready for some major changes? I think I am. Yes, "think". I'm not entirely sure. Well, no, I guess I am because I'm going to do it, right?

I've have the same website, with minimal changes, since my first book came out in 2004. That was a long time ago. Naturally, it's now, shall we say, a little out-dated? Now, I can't say that I was the one who noticed this. No. It was my dear friend, Denny Bryce (check out her website, www.dennysbryce.com) — and I can call her a dear friend because not only did she notice this, but She Told Me. Only a good friend would do that, honestly.

Now, Denny is a marketing person. I'm going to assume that she's a good marketing person because she does it for a living — and because I'm going to be putting my website partially into her hands — we're going to work on this together.

She had the idea to change my website to a WordPress site. I'm all for that. I have absolutely no idea how WordPress works, aside from putting together this blog. I'm going to assume that doing a website with WordPress will be pretty much the same thing, only with more pages.

So, starting next week (or the week after, next week is kind of hell-week for me because of the election (I'm an election judge) and Passover (cooking, cooking, cleaning and then cooking some more), I'm going to shift my website over to this blog, and then start making changes. Soon, instead of getting my old website when you type in my url (www.meredithbond.com), you'll get this blog. Only, hopefully, it won't be the blog, but a new home page with a link to the blog. I don't know yet if you'll get straight to the blog when you type in www.meredithbond.com/blog (how you may have gotten here this time). But we'll see. If you don't get straight to the blog next week, go to the website and you should be able to get to it from there. Eeeek, so many uncertainties!

But one thing is absolutely certain — I want your input! I want to know what you like and what you don't. Please don't be shy, tell me straight up (I've got a really thick skin, honestly). Any suggestions on how I should change things? Keep anything the same? I appreciate any and all comments! Oh! And I almost forgot — I've started already with a new tag line (Writing magic) and a new banner and background. What do you think?