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Welcome to the Journey to Self-Publishing Blog!

Today marks the day that I am officially going public with the announcement that I am writing a book. To be honest, the thought of making such an announcement scares me to death! Up until now, I’ve been able to just work on this project at my leisure, writing as I feel inspired or compelled, and only being required to share updates with the select few people whom I had already informed about my writing project. Yet, in many respects, that’s exactly why I started this blog. I need a little more pressure to actually buckle down and finish what I’ve started! Deadlines are my friend. 🙂

My hope is to spend a lot of time this summer working on my book – both writing and preparing to self-publish, since that’s the route I’ve decided to go. My tentative schedule is to write on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and to research other aspects of self-publishing on Tuesdays and Thursdays so that by the time I’m done writing, I’ll have a clear idea of what to do next. My goal, Lord-willing, is to finish writing before the end of this year and have the book published and available for purchase the early part of 2009. I’m hoping to blog a brief update each day of my progress and post helpful information I find along the way. I’m [obviously] a novice at this book-writing and publishing work, so I value any input, advice, suggestions, helpful links, etc. that anyone wants to pass on!

Now, off to do some writing!