It's past time to add another excerpt. This time from "Chapter 20 - Sister Mary Holy Water," an account of my experience as a naive Protestant assuming an undergraduate dean position in a Catholic school of nursing. Find under EXCERPTS on the HOME page or on the sidebar.
Category: faith
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 …
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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Countdown – Only 4 Weeks Left Until Publication
Yes, the good news has arrived. Caring Lessons: A Nursing Professor's Journey of Faith and Self should arrive by September 10. Stay tuned in to this blog to get buying information that will benefit nursing education. And some of you have been asking for a description of Caring Lessons to be posted here. So this …
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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. …
Countdown – 10/6 Weeks Until Publication!
Why the 10/6 today? Because the projected publication date for Caring Lessons was ten weeks from today - 10-1-10. But since we're now running ahead of schedule it's been changed to six weeks or even less. So it feels like having a bona fide book in my hand is really going to happen! Back to …
Stashing Away Book Stuff
I'm making progress in my clean-up before Caring Lessons comes out. To encourage you writers that an end can be in sight, here's a stack of eight drafts that I printed off of my book (thousands of pages went into recycle along the way) and three five-subject spiral notebooks that I used to chronicle every …
Countdown – 11 Weeks Until Publication
Surprise. Surprise. I didn't know I still had another "edit" coming. I received a final (I think) edit of Caring Lessons itself. And, to my chagrin, this wonderful editor found yet another 32 things she could correct. I have a totally new respect for editors! I appreciate beyond words their nitty-gritty attention to every hyphen, …
Great News! Final Proofing Finished
Last night I did the final proofing of the cover of Caring Lessons: A Nursing Professor's Journey of Faith and Self. On to the printer! Caring Lessons can be used in the classroom (especially appropriate for RN-BSN students and beyond) and for simply a look at how a suburban sandbox mom eventually got a PhD …
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