Okay, the clock is running down for Caring Lessons to come out. I'm beginning to feel the urgency and have made some calls about setting up book signings. I love libraries and have done readings at libraries before. So I'm starting there. This week's excerpt is from "Chapter 8 - Diploma Mentality." Find it under …
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Galley Proofed – Hard Copy Tip Helped A Lot!
Yippee for me. I met my weekend deadline of proofing the galley for Caring Lessons. I get to see and approve the corrections yet, but that's it. In all, there were only 22 paragraphs that were not indented correctly--something that can happen in the typesetting process. Everything else was in place--dedication, acknowledgments, TOC... Having the …
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Countdown – 15 Weeks Until Publication
I feel a bit silly announcing that in 15 weeks Caring Lessons should come out, because I'm still not finished proofing the galley. I've gotten totally sidetracked with family stuff, fun things that make me stop and reflect on the meaning of life, death, and retirement--and about everything else that confronts us on our journeys. …
Tip for Reading Book Galleys
Thanks to a tip I got yesterday from my blog mentor Helen, (see comments on last post), I printed off a hard copy of the galley for Caring Lessons. It is much easier to spot things like uneven paragraph indents on the printout. So I'm thankful for the hint to print and for the advice …
Proofing the Galley!
Being new to the process of publishing, I didn't know (or didn't remember) that I'd get the galley to proof. But I did and now I'm working on it. Caring Lessons is now typeset, and I'm very happy with how it looks. My publisher, Deep River Books, has done everything I've suggested. Imagine my grin …
Countdown — 16 Weeks Until Publication!
If all goes as planned, Caring Lessons will come out on October 1, 2010, 16 weeks from today. (It may even come out a little sooner, but I'm doing my countdown on the original projection.) I've added another excerpt. See "Chapter 6 - Time-out" under Pages.
Countdown – 17 Weeks Until Publication!
If all goes as planned, Caring Lessons will come out on October 1, 2010, 17 weeks from today. (It may even come out a little sooner, but I'll do my countdown on the original projection.) So each Friday from now on, I'll be adding another excerpt from one or two chapters. See today's excerpt from …
Nursing Shortage Update — AACN
The American Association of Colleges of Nursing has updated their fact sheet on the nursing shortage, a fact sheet that I've used before for obtaining shortage data for the promotion of Caring Lessons. Check out their website: AACN - Media - Nursing Shortage Fact Sheet As one of the growing population of older folks, I …
Dynamite Help with Writing Memoir
Writing Tip: Read a "how to" book. The best book on writing memoir--I've read many--is Tristine Rainer's Your Life as Story: Discovering the 'New Autobiography' and Writing Memoir as Literature. I didn't discover this book until my second year of writing. Maybe that was okay because I had to do a lot of writing to …
When is a Bird Not a Bird?
Writing tip: Get motivated. Ready? Read Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life. This was the second book I read on my way to becoming a writer, and I loved it. It has to do with getting your words on the page. And Lamott writes her “instructions” with humor. You can't …
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