WINDWORDS OF WYOMING – SECOND EDITION COMING SOON

I first published my book, WindWords of Wyoming: Essays, Stories & Poems on Nature, Spirituality, People & Pets back in September 2004 after a lot of trial and error to satisfy the formatting needs at CafePress. Every bit of that book was done by me, even the photo on the front, the interior layout, etc. Who knew writing would involve such “fun?!” Aarrggh!

That same year, in November, my dad died. I was very ill with what the doc said was bronchitis, so was unable to drive to Utah for the services. I did write a great remembrance from my siblings and me and paid for it to published in the local paper. Dad was a pretty neat person, still entertaining the “old folks” until about a year before he died. He was a musician and singer, played banjo, mandolin, fiddle, and keyboard.

Anyway, I was thrilled to finally see my writings in print, but by year’s end I found myself in hospital with life-threatening congestive heart failure. Five months later, in May 2005, I had a new aortic valve put in and have gone my merry way, well sometimes really hard merry way since then.

In between writing three novels as a successful NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) participant, I have helped care for one of my grandsons since he was born seven years ago. We see each other on an almost daily basis and it’s been fun to nurture his writing and musical talents.

So, WindWords– the second edition has been created to make it available on Amazon and various other places. CafePress  doesn’t have much support for self-publishing other than printing a finished product and giving one a sales page. To be fair, I didn’t do much to promote it, regardless. Mostly because of health and 3D life.

I originally went to Amazon’s CreateSpace to publish another book of mine, Prairie Child, but got so frustrated at the formatting in Word, I put it aside and decided to go with the second edition of WindWords first, on Amazon. I figured I would tighten up the learning curve as I had a pdf file ready for the interior and the cover, back cover, and spine from the CafePress edition. Thanks to a friend in the UK, satisfying CreateSpace’s formatting requirements for the outside of my book was easy and quick. Easy for me, that is. Can’t speak for my friend, but he sure made it look easy! I have just been notified the proof is on its way to me. I’ll post when I get it.

In the meantime,  I’ll be telling you more of how WindWords came about through an online music site, the Mudcat Cafe.