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Bagpipe Book UPDATE!

AS Most Of You Know I have been working on my next book — and it is close to DONE! The work has been going well and I am excited to debut it — but what is it?!?  Get ready, it’s a mouthful… UPDATE

SAMS Post 1889
SAMS Post 1889 — that’s me on the left, #94

While it looks to include some modern-traditional Scottish & Irish recipes, the book will in-part serve as a FUNdraiser for my Scottish American Military Society veterans Post.  The main feature of this text is military & patriotic Scottish & American bagpipe tunes & their histories. The News about this — the UPDATE — I finished writing the tune histories Sunday night! This is a major chunk of work on this project and the accomplishment feels GREAT 🙂

I sent these histories to one of my Post-mates yesterday who is formerly a copy editor.  He’ll go over my work while I keep my nose to the grindstone retouching the notation, finishing the writing in the beginning of the book, and starting to write the sales paragraphs for the back of the book.  Suffice it to say — there is still some work to go, however with this latest development I Am OPTIMISTIC that this book will be completed and that I will have copies-in-hand by or before my target end-of-June release date. 😀 UPDATE

& Updates On A Few Other Things…

Make Your Own Darn Good Cookies

While I’m EXCITED to get the Post Piper book released, completing that project paves the way for me to return to re-doing my mini freE-book.  My plan is for this project is to first go up on Smashwords with the possibility of following as a book &/or short recipe book on Amazon. A few weeks ago I did a second publication of my e-book on Smashwords — previously only available on Amazon. The cool thing with Smashwords is that they push your e-book to all the other e-book platforms — B&N, Kobo, Overdrive — EVERYONE! Go check it out — my e-book is currently lower-priced on Smashwords right now than it is on Amazon … or at least it was the last I checked 😉 UPDATE

ENJOY ~ Don UPDATE

Click here for my debut recipe book & e-book on Amazon or use the Smashwords widget to buy the e-book in your preferred format Right Here! 😀

I’ve Published WIDE!

make your own darn good cookiesIf you’re not already familiar, let me tell you a little about the world of self-publishing.  I’m still learning about this myself, so my details might be a little fuzzy, but here goes PUBLISH

Last October I published my recipe book on Amazon.com.  A month later I followed with publishing the e-book version.  When you release your e-book out with just one self-publishing company that’s referred to as ‘publishing exclusive‘.  When you put it out with multiple companies that’s called ‘publishing wide‘.
(This is a rather good article on publishing exclusive & wide and the pros & cons …. if you can stay awake through it.) PUBLISH

As of TODAY I have published wide! PUBLISH

smashwordsOver the weekend I uploaded my e-book to Smashwords.com.  When your manuscript is formatted correctly — that is when it meets the particulars of Smashwords — they then push your e-book product out to roughly twenty other companies**.  While I uploaded my e-book to Smashwords Sunday, 24-hours later I received noticed I’ve officially published wide! PUBLISH
(** also known as getting accepted into the Smashwords Premium Catalog)

OverDriveKobo Rakuteningram contentAnother great thing about having my e-book go out to these other e-reader entities is libraries.  Many libraries get their e-books from companies other than Amazon.  My understanding is that most draw their e-books from — chiefly — OverDrive and Kobo.  If they don’t have it already, please contact your local library and ask them to purchase a copy of my book (in addition to Amazon it should also be with Ingram) and a copy of my e-book. PUBLISH

I’m glad to be with Amazon.com, and I’m glad to be widening my net so people who enjoy other e-reader devices can access my recipes.  Just think, if I get as many sales per month with these twenty other companies as I do with Amazon right now . . . well . . . I won’t be living rich, but it would be a nice little chunk of change to bring in. PUBLISH