DONNY
OSMOND IS MISSING! The headline in,
“Around the Town”, a local
newspaper column definitely made me stop and take notice. As an Osmond fan,
this was big news to me. If Donny Osmond
was missing, I would have known! I went
back and read the entire story. It was
not about the singer at all. Someone had lost her cat, Donny Osmond. I could
feel the little girl's heart break. Speculation was that Donny had been kidnapped,
because according to Cindy he was a beautiful cat.
Sunday, March 24, 2013
DONNY OSMOND is missing!!!
I bet that caught your attention didn't it? This is from Chapter 6 of Friends...Lessons of Life. It is about how I met my friend Cindy which has to do with "Donny Osmond" being missing!!! I loved Cindy and will always be grateful for her. Here is a snippet of the first paragraph from her story:
Saturday, March 9, 2013
Who Wants to Win a Free Copy?
Okay so here I sit tonight all antsy and giddy over my book!! My friend has been proofing it for me and just gave me her feedback this evening. Corrections are mostly made, a couple more things to do and it will be done again. Then I send it off for another proof and let another person read it. Once I approve the proof it will then be published and available on Amazon.
So here is what I am thinking!! Why not get you all antsy, giddy and excited as me?? Just leave a comment here (on he blog) with your prediction of when it will be released and like us on FB (yeah sorry you have to do both so we can get the page going!) and who ever is closest will win a FREE COPY!!!
Here is the link to the FB Page:
https://www.facebook.com/Friendslessonsoflife
Sound good? Start those clicking fingers going!!!
Thank you all for your continued support!!!
So here is what I am thinking!! Why not get you all antsy, giddy and excited as me?? Just leave a comment here (on he blog) with your prediction of when it will be released and like us on FB (yeah sorry you have to do both so we can get the page going!) and who ever is closest will win a FREE COPY!!!
Here is the link to the FB Page:
https://www.facebook.com/Friendslessonsoflife
Sound good? Start those clicking fingers going!!!
Thank you all for your continued support!!!
Saturday, March 2, 2013
The Proofs are here!!!
Hooray!!! The book is 272 pages long so far. I say so far because there may or may not be a few things I forgot -- like the TITLE PAGE!! OOPS!! But it will come. The main goal for me was to get the manuscript in a publishable format. And that FINALLY happened!
I thought I would share with you a bit of the journey of the book and why it took me so long to get to this point.
First of all, when you go back in your life to parts of it you would rather forget, it stirs up a lot of emotion. To the point, many times I had to put it away to heal and think about the things I had learned in my life.
Even with Carol and I sitting down and working together on it, it was hard and I still broke down at times. BUT I will admit the healing was something I never would have expected. I had a fear people would laugh, and taunt me more than ever, because that is how much of my life has been. But what I learned is that I cannot fear people. I can't be afraid to share my story because there are hundreds out there just like me who are. We have to help them become stronger!!
The second stumbling block was trying to get all the formatting that was done to transfer in a published status without having to reformat all 272 pages. There were three programs I tried numerous times and each time they failed. When I saw a friend's book cover for her books, I thought WHOA!! I need to spruce mine up a bit!! I searched for my file with my covers in it, and could not find it. I did a computer search as well as a manual search and even searched my file folder where my chapter files were. Nothing. I was so frustrated. I started over.
Then I went to see a dear friend and take her a birthday present. In mentioning this to her she said, "Well Laura, maybe someone is trying to tell you something. Maybe you need to pray about it." I went and ran my errands, yet this stayed on my mind. I got home and tried again and it didn't work. Then I took my friends words to heart. I had a small prayer and asked that if I was to share my story I needed help to get it published. I went back to the third program and tried again. Now before I stopped because my cover ended up sideways. ACK!! This time I started with the manuscript and it went in so beautifully!! I cried!! I thought, "Are you kidding me!!" The formatting, page numbering everything was correct!! I was Snoopy Dancing!!!
But then I remembered, the real trick was the cover. I had to recreate my cover because I didn't have the original anymore (I thought) and when I went to upload it that is when I saw it. The wording was something like, "Don't have a cover? Use one of our pre-made covers!" So I did...the first one there was MY COVER and I knew it!! And that is how I finally got past the obstacles to get the book in PROOF Stages!!1
Just as a side note....that original cover I could not find? Two days later it appeared in my book folder again where it was supposed to be. Go Figure!!!
I thought I would share with you a bit of the journey of the book and why it took me so long to get to this point.
First of all, when you go back in your life to parts of it you would rather forget, it stirs up a lot of emotion. To the point, many times I had to put it away to heal and think about the things I had learned in my life.
Even with Carol and I sitting down and working together on it, it was hard and I still broke down at times. BUT I will admit the healing was something I never would have expected. I had a fear people would laugh, and taunt me more than ever, because that is how much of my life has been. But what I learned is that I cannot fear people. I can't be afraid to share my story because there are hundreds out there just like me who are. We have to help them become stronger!!
The second stumbling block was trying to get all the formatting that was done to transfer in a published status without having to reformat all 272 pages. There were three programs I tried numerous times and each time they failed. When I saw a friend's book cover for her books, I thought WHOA!! I need to spruce mine up a bit!! I searched for my file with my covers in it, and could not find it. I did a computer search as well as a manual search and even searched my file folder where my chapter files were. Nothing. I was so frustrated. I started over.
Then I went to see a dear friend and take her a birthday present. In mentioning this to her she said, "Well Laura, maybe someone is trying to tell you something. Maybe you need to pray about it." I went and ran my errands, yet this stayed on my mind. I got home and tried again and it didn't work. Then I took my friends words to heart. I had a small prayer and asked that if I was to share my story I needed help to get it published. I went back to the third program and tried again. Now before I stopped because my cover ended up sideways. ACK!! This time I started with the manuscript and it went in so beautifully!! I cried!! I thought, "Are you kidding me!!" The formatting, page numbering everything was correct!! I was Snoopy Dancing!!!
But then I remembered, the real trick was the cover. I had to recreate my cover because I didn't have the original anymore (I thought) and when I went to upload it that is when I saw it. The wording was something like, "Don't have a cover? Use one of our pre-made covers!" So I did...the first one there was MY COVER and I knew it!! And that is how I finally got past the obstacles to get the book in PROOF Stages!!1
Just as a side note....that original cover I could not find? Two days later it appeared in my book folder again where it was supposed to be. Go Figure!!!
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