Wednesday, September 21, 2011
A cup of humor with your tea
What's blue and white and READ all over?
My new blog!
LOL HA HA
OK, fine, it's a few peeps short of being read all over...but's it's only because
I'M TOO SEXY FOR MY BLOG!
Yes, you may start throwing the tomatoes this way now - but then my blog will be
blue and white and RED all over!
Now that you've had your laugh - go drink your tea!
It's my blog so I can say what I want - and that's what I felt like saying. Good day. :-)
Stay tuned....peep show coming soon!
My new blog!
LOL HA HA
OK, fine, it's a few peeps short of being read all over...but's it's only because
I'M TOO SEXY FOR MY BLOG!
Yes, you may start throwing the tomatoes this way now - but then my blog will be
blue and white and RED all over!
Now that you've had your laugh - go drink your tea!
It's my blog so I can say what I want - and that's what I felt like saying. Good day. :-)
Stay tuned....peep show coming soon!
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Pretty One
This book is dedicated to Pretty One.
I had no idea when I moved into my new home that I would develop a new and special friendship with Pretty One.
I was given a rare and unique opportunity when Pretty One allowed me to spend time with him and his family.
A friendship and trusting bond was built with this beautiful and special Canada goose as he included me in his daily life and shared his family with me. There were times when he stood there looking at me that I was keenly aware of the level of trust that existed between us.
I will never forget his elegant appearance as he stood next to me. Many times I wanted to reach out and stroke his neck, but I did not.
I’m grateful for this experience and I will treasure it always. It has been educational, fascinating, heartbreaking, heartwarming, and even funny.
Martie Gaudette
Clearing the mind a bit
Wow, tonight's workout felt great! Yesterday's made me feel like a pile of crap. Today's was much better! It helped to clear the mind. I seem to have all kinds of great ideas but when I actually sit down to write them, they somehow slip away into some remote section of my mind that scrambles them up with other great ideas. Now if only I could figure out how to organize that mess!
I have been having fun making new friends on Book Blogs and Facebook today and I'm looking forward to doing the same tomorrow. I'm still having a tough time figuring out how to get some cool widgets/gadgets on my blog page. Several people have helped, but I'm just not getting it yet!
I have been having fun making new friends on Book Blogs and Facebook today and I'm looking forward to doing the same tomorrow. I'm still having a tough time figuring out how to get some cool widgets/gadgets on my blog page. Several people have helped, but I'm just not getting it yet!
Monday, September 19, 2011
We have an illustrator!
After much searching we chose an illustrator for our book! She has been great to work with so far. She works from our low quality photos and much improvising!
Her work is beautiful, very detailed and really brings the story alive! I love every one of her illustrations thus far and can't wait to see them all when they are placed in our book!
Her work is beautiful, very detailed and really brings the story alive! I love every one of her illustrations thus far and can't wait to see them all when they are placed in our book!
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Create Space
In order to stay within our budget and still put together a decent book, I have ended up learning much of the publishing process and doing it myself. This actually makes me the publisher! Create space will be used as the printer and distributor for our book. I, never in a million years, would have expected to get to this point!
We are almost ready to publish our book!
I want to thank my Aunt Martie for writing this awesome story and being so cool to work with, and patient!
I want to thank my daughter, Jess, for her assistance with designing style.
I want to thank my cousin Felicia for all her efforts with photoshop to make the photos that my aunt took better quality.
I want to thank all friends and family that have given suggestions along the way. Every little piece of information has been helpful!
We are almost ready to publish our book!
I want to thank my Aunt Martie for writing this awesome story and being so cool to work with, and patient!
I want to thank my daughter, Jess, for her assistance with designing style.
I want to thank my cousin Felicia for all her efforts with photoshop to make the photos that my aunt took better quality.
I want to thank all friends and family that have given suggestions along the way. Every little piece of information has been helpful!
Self publishing
So I decided to go the self publishing route! After some research and changing my mind a bunch of times, I settled on Amazon's Create Space. In my opinion, they are not the easiest to work with, but they do offer a lot of assistance in the form of tutorials and classes, as well as a community where you can ask questions and share ideas with other writers.
I started with the idea that I would have a small budget for this project and once this amount is determined, I will need to make it work without going over the budget. As I chose from the publishing packages and options, I would make a decision only to change my mind again when I learned of something else that we just had to have! This would bring us over our budget again.
To keep this project within the budget, I will need to learn how to do much of the work myself. This was not the easy way, but it has been quite a learning experience and I feel pretty good after I learn something new - you know that feeling you get when you can look back and remember how you knew nothing or very little of a subject, maybe a new class you are starting, or a do-it-yourself project, you knew there was a lot of learning and work ahead, but you could see the imagined end result. Now you have accomplished something new! There are a bunch of these little learning challenges along the way, but each one brings you closer to the final goal!
I have mostly been on the asking questions side but I am looking forward to getting to the point when people can ask me questions and I can offer my assistance. It has been fun learning about others that have chosen to self publish their work for their own personal reasons. Some of these people actually chose this route, even after previously having a typical publishing contract. With either route, the author really does not make much of a profit at all, but at least with self-publishing the author has more control over the details of their work and is able to keep a bit more of the profits.
At this time, we are finalizing the details of the story and the details and design of the book.
By the way, the "I" and the "we" that I refer to are not my multiple personalities (although I am almost certain that I have those.) I am talking of myself and my aunt ( the person who actually wrote the story.) Sometimes we work together and sometimes I do my own thing and then check in with her after. This has not been an organized effort but I am making it work...We are making it happen!
I started with the idea that I would have a small budget for this project and once this amount is determined, I will need to make it work without going over the budget. As I chose from the publishing packages and options, I would make a decision only to change my mind again when I learned of something else that we just had to have! This would bring us over our budget again.
To keep this project within the budget, I will need to learn how to do much of the work myself. This was not the easy way, but it has been quite a learning experience and I feel pretty good after I learn something new - you know that feeling you get when you can look back and remember how you knew nothing or very little of a subject, maybe a new class you are starting, or a do-it-yourself project, you knew there was a lot of learning and work ahead, but you could see the imagined end result. Now you have accomplished something new! There are a bunch of these little learning challenges along the way, but each one brings you closer to the final goal!
I have mostly been on the asking questions side but I am looking forward to getting to the point when people can ask me questions and I can offer my assistance. It has been fun learning about others that have chosen to self publish their work for their own personal reasons. Some of these people actually chose this route, even after previously having a typical publishing contract. With either route, the author really does not make much of a profit at all, but at least with self-publishing the author has more control over the details of their work and is able to keep a bit more of the profits.
At this time, we are finalizing the details of the story and the details and design of the book.
By the way, the "I" and the "we" that I refer to are not my multiple personalities (although I am almost certain that I have those.) I am talking of myself and my aunt ( the person who actually wrote the story.) Sometimes we work together and sometimes I do my own thing and then check in with her after. This has not been an organized effort but I am making it work...We are making it happen!
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