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. …
Continue reading Hurrah! The Final Proofing of Galleys for Caring Lessons
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 …
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 …
Continue reading Galley Proofed – Hard Copy Tip Helped A Lot!
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. …
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
I'm in to the nursing shortage tonight, partly because I've heard some horror stories again about people's experiences where they needed a nurse and encountered someone without the education or licensure. I'm not out to paint nursing as all rosy. The economic downturn right now is affecting jobs. Read or listen to this newscast: Shortage …
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 …
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