November 27 – I have about half of the reviews back. I am eternally grateful to people who have spent so much time on this and given my project their very best efforts. And it’s doing the manuscript a world of good, too. They are finding everything from errors in logic, to confusing points, to [...]
November, 2009
Printed the draft for reviews
I went to Office Depot and had them print and bind copies for the readers. It was an exciting moment, to get those copies. I’m sure the guy doing the copying thought I was weird, because when he brought the first one out to me for approval, and I couldn’t stop reading it.
It came out [...]
Restaurant Review – La Choperia, Merida
Jim and I like this place. It’s on Called 56 between 51 and 53, where the owner bought an enormous unsightly ruin and lot and made something beautiful out of it.
The dining room is huge. The chairs are hard and uncomfortable, but you can sit in the glass-walled smoking area where they have sofas. Often [...]
Getting there.
I kind of finished the book yesterday, and started inputting my own proofs that I’d done on hardcopy. A group of wonderful people have agreed to read the manuscript and critique. I’m not going to make major changes, but I’m sure there are a lot of errors.
Unfortunately, my contact at the Washington State Crime Lab [...]
Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, by Deanne Rios
This is a post from my dear friend Deanne Rios. She retired from her long years at the Washington State Division of Vocational Rehabilitation, has bought a series of excellent vehicles, and drives around aimlessly. She’s been writing about Cape Breton, Novia Scotia and it makes we want to go there, so I thought some [...]
Costco Merida
You people up north have no idea what a treasure you have in Costco. I am in in the Merida store at least once a week.
Before Costco opened here about ten years ago, I had to schlep down every special tool, towels, socks, and most of all, holiday gifts. Having the store here, even though [...]
Bad Book Day
Today I printed out the whole book and was quite overwhelmed by it. I went through it with proofs and edits, marked it up, added continuity, etc., but I don’t know…seeing it printed made me queasy.
First of all, I think it’s too short. I could read this in a little over three hours. It’s only [...]
Bowker Company ISBN Website
I had a call from the Bowker company today. Mike Ruhl, who is a product manager there called to apologize for the trouble I had on their site the other day and to tell me the design of the site is under review. He also said that on the day I was attempting to get [...]
Xmatquil Fair and Belize Mennonites
Yesterday, the yentas went to the Yucatan State Fair. All we did was shop, talk and eat. It was disgraceful. I don’t think we saw a quarter of the fair and we were there for hours. We totally missed the horses and cattle, the original reason for the fair’s existence. The place was huge, like [...]
Getting ISBN Numbers
Before you publish on Amazon, you need an ISBN number for your book. (International Standard Book Number). Any published book needs one of these numbers if you want to market it at all. It makes the book uniquely identifiable. To get one, you have to go through R.W. Bowker, the only agency licensed to issue ISBNs [...]