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 …
Continue reading Strategies for Book Promotion – A Novice Begins
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 …
Continue reading Countdown – Only 4 Weeks Left 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 …
As I watched the news last night with the ravaging fires in Russia, I could not help but wish them well in my mind and remember a memorable experience we had there a few years ago. See this story under STORIES at the top of the page.
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. …
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 …
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 …
For many years I went to the most special massage therapist. And older man, formerly in business, in his second career who wanted to give back to society. And give back he did, generously. He charged only $40, would not take tips because "You don't tips as a nurse, do you?," and readily overflowed the …
Boy, am I having fun today. Shredding, filling up the recycle box, setting aside stuff to share with other writers. With Caring Lessons off to the printer, I can finally PURGE this mess around my desk. Piles of drafts, stuff to be filed, books... Writing-related guides, for instance. I have guides to everything it seems. …
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, …
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