Hello again, WordPress
I might just be writing this because I don’t have anything from my old website’s blog that I want to move over, but I also don’t want to leave my blog blank.
Bear with me while I explain why we’re here.
Two years ago, I started a website at BookBub’s new author-oriented website building platform, aptly named Author Websites. While there was a lot of it that was geared toward authors and was, therefore, desirable, I missed WordPress. A lot.
“You missed it?” you might be asking. “Since when did you ever have a website before kristinwolfauthor.com?”
It might come as a surprise, but this is my fourth website.
The first was basically my personal journal. I wrote about my days, complained about simple life problems, and otherwise spoke to an audience of no one. To say I was happy was to understate my mood in that age. But nothing lasts forever, and before I knew it, social media had stripped away the fun of silly diary-style blogging.
The second website I had was a mommy blog. NobodysReady.com was my get-rich-quick scheme. I wanted to be a writer, but I still hadn’t found the confidence to put my fiction out there. So, I decided I would write short articles about mommy life, relying on affiliate links and the like to bankroll my new career in pretending I had all the answers when I could barely get through the day as a toddler-mom. Obviously, this failed miserably, but I didn’t let it deter me from websites altogether. Actually, it impressed upon me the importance of having a landing page for your work to just exist.
If you’re here and you’ve known about me for a while, then you probably know about KristinWolfAuthor.com. It was a nice site, it was just a little too inflexible for me. I didn’t have much say on what went on which page and that left me scratching my head. I missed WordPress. Desperately, irrevocably. That’s why I’m here.
I’m thrilled with my experience so far. There’s been some (expected) stumbling blocks, of course. My About Me page was particularly frustrating. And for some reason, one of my pages kept popping up the theme template page for the longest time. But the more I’ve reoriented myself, the greater joy I’ve gotten from this.
Not to mention, I love my new domain. KristinWolfRomance is way more memorable than KristinWolfAuthor. Especially since there’s more than one Kristin Wolf who is an author. I’m the one that delivers romance. Hell yeah.
So what can you expect from this blog?
Right now, not much. I’m pretty much planning on using this page for three things – updates on my works in progress, book reviews, and author interviews.
That’s it.
No affiliate links (yet). No overly salesy-ness. I just want to treat this space as my authoring diary. Recreate my first website experience and just live in the moment.
Stay tuned for updates on:
- Dating/Investigating, my current contemporary WIP
- Angelica Deerborne, my next Regency romance I’ll be writing at some point toward the end of the year
- Book 3 of Austen, Ohio
- My plans for my authoring business and K&K publishing, my personal imprint
If you’re here and reading this, what’s your opinion of the new site? Any recommended fixes?