I’ve now claimed belaurientpress.com as a domain and redirected it to the Belaurient Press page here. That was necessary because I *ta da* now have a business PayPal account and need to add a business URL in the settings.
I don’t know if I’m going to bother with setting up an actual individual website for Belaurient Press—it’s only my books, Nicola’s books, and the anthos for my writer’s group so a whole separate website seems like overkill. But it’s all another step towards becoming my ultimate small businesswoman self and taking over the world, muwahahahahahaha.
More importantly, now that I have my business PayPal account I can start adding purchase links for all my/Nicola’s print books (I can sell ebooks as well because I have a BookSprout account but I need to do more research into how to fulfill ebook sales) as well as the Belaurient Arts jewelry. Now all I have to do is start recording the audiobooks and set up my Patreon and I’ll be well away.
It is amazing, how much better you feel after a good night’s sleep. I actually want to work and don’t want the world to explode anymore.
And before you say, “Hey, Mel, you work for yourself and set your own hours—why do you care if it’s the weekend?” you must remember that I regularly work 60 hour weeks as the owner of my own business and having two days where I can occasionally force my brain into taking a break is a Good Thing.
Monday was spent trying to recover from that crappy night of pain and no sleep so I wasn’t able to get all the things done that day.
For me, at least, it’s finding stuff that I’d forgotten I had and want to do something with (like a cool swashbuckling hat that’s great for TikTok videos). I really have to be stern with myself and say, “No, we’re going to put that away. You can play with it when you have time, but right now you’re cleaning.”
Melanie Fletcher 