Wow. I’m having a book published. I mean, really, me?
The edits for the book are finished. Jane is going over it one more time and making one change I wanted.
Yesterday she sent me a file containing information on how to do the acknowlegements and dedication and other such stuff.
For some reason, filling them in made it seem far too real.
And I had to do a bio. I hate all the other ones I have so I made a new one. It’s funny and very appropriate.
The acknowlegements were hard. Including someone is important; leaving someone out is even more so. I had to think of everyone and thing that helped me to write that book. I decided to not mention Forward Motion and NaNoWriMo, mostly because those two would need more information that the spaced allowed. But then, both were very important parts of the book. FM not so much any more and NaNoWriMo only happens once a year (and is not too far away!). Should I mention them? I also didn’t mention OpenOffice.org or WordWeb. Both programs make writing such a breeze. And I didn’t mention Dell for selling me the laptop. Or Lipton for making such good tea bags.
Perhaps these acknowlegements need to be on the webpage for the book. That way links can be included and explanations given. I can also then include online friends such as Sophia, Irysangel, and Kaitana. I can mention the staff at the Weaverville Waffle House.
The dedication was easy. I’ve had that one done in my head for a long time.
I didn’t have an “epigraph”. Never even thought about it. I’ll have to come up with something for the others, though.
It was the permission section that gave me a big pain in the patootie. More on that later.