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Saturday, October 19, 2024

Well, I still have yet to get the edited book back from the Editor. He sent me a message asking to extend the deadline by 3 days, so I agreed to extend it. It was supposed to be back to me by 10/16 and I agreed to extend it to 10/20, so we'll see what is going to happen from there.

Also, I have been working on the webpage for the book www.cdsthebook.com and finishing up the ordering page, and it looks like I am going to be able to offer the book on Apple Books, Google Books, Kobo, Barns & Noble, and Amazon. Barns and Noble and Amazon will have both the eBook and the paperback, the others will only have eBook. The amount of hoop jumping I'm having to do in order to get these services setup has been interesting and can see why people suggest having a Literary Agent. But I am a hands-on type of person, and I like to figure things out the best I can, without having to pay out of pocket. That's why I use free services like Weebly, Square, Talkatone, and other such services. One, it helps me keep costs down, and two, I get to learn how to do things on my own. I can do basic HTML coding from scratch and type out the programing that I need, but when it comes to adding JAVA, CSS, and other programming languages, I rather use a What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) so that way it looks more professional and not a website designed in 1996.

So, with everything else going on in my personal day to day, it's kind of nice to let things get worked on in the background so that I can focus on other projects.

Friday, October 11, 2024

Well, I just at this very moment submitted the manuscript to the editor and everything is now under review, and he will begin working on it right away.

I am so flipping excited and nervous. My whole body is buzzing right now, and I think that it's just the adrenaline of pulling the trigger and making such a large investment in myself.

Now I've got to purchase my ISBN number and get everything submitted to KDP and Barns and Noble. 


I want to celebrate but at the time of writing this its 11pm and there's no place open to celebrate. So I will just have myself a glass of wine and chew my nails down to the nubs lol.


Wednesday, October 9, 2024
Well I've been stressing about my book as per usual and a venue for the book launch party. Well I was given a rental space for 3hrs at a local community center. 
So, now all I need to do is get the book to the final editor which will be taking place this week. And buying my ISBN number. 

The book is going to be released in eBook and paperback for now. I had originally wanted to release it in hardbound too, but due to finances and timelines this is the compromise I have to make. 

In the next few weeks I'll be a stress ball, but will keep the Instagram account updated as well as TikTok account and I'll be updating Facebook and the Podcast as well