It was a funny kind of day. I made a cake and tried to ice it for my son’s 11th birthday and put the icing on too early and well you can imagine. Icing dripping like a heat wave but we’ve got the candles on now for my son’s 11th birthday tomorrow and it looks […]
One of my hardest things is self-promotion. I’m really good once I get going, but getting out of the gate is really tough for me. I don’t have swagger and I certainly don’t ooze confidence. So picking up the phone and talking to our island bookstore today, and arranging a meeting with the lovely Gloria, […]
It’s been a great week of holiday fun, and the best part was meeting with the librarian at our local library and donating three copies of my first story Mabel Hartley A Sapphire Moon, in paperback. Now the books will be added to the catalogue and available for circulation all around Vancouver Island. I am […]
My proof of my second story comes next. It’s a real nail biter. This process of getting books into print. Where did I go wrong? Oh, just delete the header on the first page. Someone says who may be in China or India or thereabouts. So I do, and that’s it. All that stands between […]
For the last few weeks I have been powering through the final draft of my second story “Mabel Hartley The Mummy’s Cape,” and today I finished! Tomorrow, I read through the last few chapters to make sure I have all the changes right and then I will sent it off to Amazon to get my […]
Ok. This post is not about professing love for our leaders. I want to write instead about today. It was a good one, especially considering how I got home from dropping the kids and came home to a garage full of water and an hour with the shop vac to stem the flood from the […]
I started a process today to create my stories into paperback format. This is very exciting for me and make take a while to figure out but I am ready! This will allow readers to have the option of either downloading an ebook or buying my books to add to their libraries or give books […]
J.E. Reddington 