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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Countdown – 12 Weeks Until Publication
Well, I'm on the final, final trek to get Caring Lessons off to the printer. Have been working on refining the wording on the back cover. Have a great editor helping me make my nursing jargon understandable. I'm so used to talking as if everyone knows what I mean. Not so. It reminds me of …
Writers: The Power of Three
During a recent road trip, I became aware that I was seeing the passing scenes in threesomes. Three geese. Three picnic tables. Three goats. Why wasn't I noticing foursomes and twosomes? My mind roamed around until I found my answer--the power of three I'd learned in writing classes. How a repetition of three--words, short sentences, …
Countdown – 13 Weeks Until Publication
Caring Lessons will become a reality soon! One more page-the back cover--to proof and it's off to the publisher. Today I was shredding stuff (still working on those boxes) and old evaluations were among the pile. Evals, we called them, that we as faculty got from students (almost every 7 weeks of the nearly 20 …
Hurrah! The Final Proofing of Galleys for Caring Lessons
This past weekend I was in a Tomah, Wisconsin, motel when I told my husband I had to check emails before we went for dinner. The computer was in the dining room of the continental breakfast motel. I settled in and soon after a group of military men and women started a meeting around me. …
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Countdown – 14 Weeks Until Publication
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 …
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 …
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