I'm Ania, founder of AuthorSHED, software tools and training for self-published authors.

I spent 25 years as a software architect and I write fiction under two pen names, M.A. Solis and Ann Fairway. I did not expect those two worlds to collide. Turns out they needed to.

Most indie authors I know are exhausted. Not from writing, they love that part. From everything around it. The platforms that do not talk to each other. The marketing that eats entire weekends. The admin that never ends. And then AI showed up promising to fix everything, and instead started producing prose that sounds like it was written by a confident stranger who has never read your books.

That is the bit that keeps authors up at night. Not the tools. The fear that if you let AI anywhere near your work, the thing that took years to develop, your voice, your style, the reason readers come back, quietly disappears.

I know both sides of that problem intimately. The technical side and the author side. And I know what needs to exist to fix it. That is what AuthorSHED is being built for.

A world where self-published authors spend their time writing, and the systems, tools and AI work around them. Handling the business. Handling the chaos. Never touching the voice.

If that vision resonates, you are in the right place.