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Countdown – 1 Week Until Publication
If shipping goes as projected, Caring Lessons: A Nursing Professor's Journey of Faith and Self should arrive here within a week. This morning, on a (famous) writer's website, I read about her mad scramble the week of her book's arrival. I can identify. I've sent emails to lots of friends and family for pre-orders, and …
The Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition)- Debut
For $65 you can now buy the newest edition of The Chicago Manual of Style. Maybe you've never heard of it, but maybe you also have communed with it for hours trying to figure out the "correct" use of commas, quotation marks, capitalizations, etc. In college and in grad school, I used APA format (Publication …
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Countdown – 2 Weeks Until Publication / Book promotional items, anyone?
Life's been a bit hectic trying to get things done before Caring Lessons: A Nursing Professor's Journey of Faith and Self comes out. But I had a most informative day yesterday. My daughter, with her business contacts, hooked me up with Karen Peterson, a sales representative for GoPromotions. She invited us to a large show …
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Countdown – 3 Weeks Until Publication
That's right. Three weeks from today I should have a stack of books stashed into the corners of my life. On one blog, another new author has put up a jubilant picture of himself with his stacks. I may do the same! It's almost fall and that means school is starting soon. Even though I've …
The 100th Anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s Death
Last Friday, August 13, was the 100th anniversary of Florence Nightingale's death. I first studied Ms. Nightingale in a nursing history course the summer of 1960. In the 1959 Trends in Nursing History textbook that still sits on my bookshelves, I've underlined the passage saying she was born in Florence, Italy, "on May 12, 1820, …
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Strategies for Book Promotion – A Novice Begins
I'm not famous. I've never been on the front page of any newspaper, unless I can count my president's notes years ago on a District 20 newsletter of the Illinois Nursing Association. And I've not had a traumatic history to relate. So how do I promote my book? My promo literature includes something about an …
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“Biking for the Book”
The July/August issue of Poets&Writers features an article "Biking for the Book" about author James Kaelan's 1900 mile bike tour from Santa Monica to Vancouver to promote his collection of stories, We're Getting On. The article states the tour was being called the Zero Emission Book Project, referring to "a group of people who...abandon society …
Countdown – 8/4 Weeks Until Publication
Time's beginning to move quickly, and I'm making some exciting plans for promoting Caring Lessons. For fun this week, I searched on my Word program for one name that I use only in the first chapter of Caring Lessons. Since I've worked on the book off and mostly on for ten years, I suspected the …
Countdown – 9/5 Weeks Until Publication
Getting closer! It's either 9 or 5 weeks before Caring Lessons arrives on the warehouse dock in SW Chicago for Marv and me to pick up. We've been assured the boxes will fit in our SUV. Since we live in a smallish condo, my storage--like everyone else living in a smallish condo--will be my bathtub. …
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