It’s been a while since I updated about the projects I am working on and this past week has been busy!
1. I’m writing an ebook.
It’s still in progress but I was inspired by the Coaches’ Preview post I wrote before Social Media Camp to put together a larger ebook on social media best practices. I wrote about 3500 words the first week then slowed significantly once I started researching for some numbers to back up my observations. Still, I am pretty content with the progress so far and hope to have a draft finished within another week. The working title is Creative Conversations: Using Social Media to Connect. When it is done, it will be released by Those DeWolfes Creative as a free download and will be Creative Commons licensed (CC-ND) so that it can be shared freely.
Once it’s finished, I will be working on putting together an ebook of smoothie recipes, many drawn from what I learned last year doing a smoothie-a-day for June. A year later, I’m still making smoothies most mornings and have a few faves and a few I work into rotation when I have a chance.
2. I’m going to start a movie review YouTube show.
For over 20 years, my friend Alynda and I have been bouncing around the idea of doing a movie review show. We finally came up with a show title we like — The Cloud and the Silver Lining –and are going to have a companion blog to go with weekly shows doing reviews of “back catalog” films. We will try to tie into movies currently in theatres but look at films you “might also like…” to take a page from Netflix and Amazon. If you want to follow along, you can also like our Facebook page; content should start building in June.
3. ThoseDeWolfes Press published another book.
This is the first book we have published that we didn’t write or contribute to (although Shawn did design the cover); it’s a fantasy novel by Dave Robinson called Amadar and is now available for US$4.99 in several countries. I had to remember how to add the ISBN, but otherwise it went fairly well; only quirk — it was available for purchase in the US (and had two sales!) for about 10 hours before I could see it on my publisher’s bookshelf.