So following my rabbit dream post, and on the heels of two friends asking me about smoothies, I decided to gather all my smoothiejune posts, tidy them up, and add some new content — information as well as new recipes.
I wrote for most of Sunday, some of Monday and wrapped it up last night — about 12,000 words total. I also spent time Monday designing the cover. I still have to manage all the photos (resize them to be Kindle-friendly), get the manuscript edited (it’s in the hands of my editor already!), and follow the other steps as outlined in Those DeWolfes’ “5 Things You Must do Before Publishing Your eBook” — the toughest of those is going to be generating some buzz among potential audiences.
However, it feels really good to have just pushed through and done something that has been in my head and on my to-do list for about a year — I had originally planned to release the book a year after my smoothiejune experiment.
Now that has led to a cascade of other thoughts, ideas, and plans. One of my other plans will be to create an ebook version of Shawn’s “Impress the World Before 11 AM” brunch cookbook. It really deserves wider distribution than the pricey print-on-demand versions he originally created at Lulu (which are still available, but I think I will make the new one a revised edition and put it on both Smashwords and Kindle). I’m aiming to get that done before I go back to work next week (on a whim, I took an extra four days vacation since I felt productive).
In addition to that, I have work to do for our car site, Where Can I Buy A Car Online (long name, useful site!) — I’ve been helping to edit and schedule content plus, I have to file the tax paperwork (not something I’m looking forward to).
When all that is done, I can get on to the next book. But which one? Eeenie… meenie… miney… mo….