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This morning I awoke for the first time in probably about 45 days feeling as though I were totally on top of things, pretty much on schedule and that everything really was under control. I’m feeling surprisingly good.
This morning I will be working on the pdf downloads and adding them to the website. When that [...]

Yesterday, Martha Dougherty and I spent the day printing Postcards.
These are for our upcoming booksignings. Hers will be mailed out to a list of over 200 recipients. Mine will be mailed out to probably about 75 with an additional 100 being mailed down to the Borders store for them to have out for customers to [...]

Hello, all. Saturday sort of got away from me, and you can blame a good bit of that on the Sears optical department. As I’m reviewing everything else on this blog, I thought, why not Sears, too?
So, lets look at the Sears optical department stats (and this would be the Washington, PA Sears store, btw):
Our [...]

Yesterday was the day that we sent our first Press Release out through PRLeap. I used the free service for this initial send out so that I would have a bench-mark to compare to when sending out one through their paid service (which is $50.00). After we see some results for that, I’ll send the next [...]

Yesterday, I was able to design flyers specific to the upcoming booksigning at the West Alexander Community Center that both Martha Dougherty and myself will be attending. I’m really looking forward to a dual booksigning and think it will be a lot of fun.
The flyers look like this (front and back):

I included our other Double [...]

Double Edge Press Publishing is announcing the simultaneous release of its next three books, all written by the same author.

Double Edge Press is a small, regional publishing house in the Pittsburgh area and has an on-line presence in the Hummingbird World Media conglomerate website http://hummingbirdworldmedia.com.

It averages four titles a year and began publishing in 2005. [...]

Yesterday I spent far more time than I anticipated or particularly wanted to researching our aforementioned press release sites, trying to wade through which was most promising, which most economical and coming to a decision on one or more of them.
At best all I can do is give you some initial feedback at this point.
This [...]

I had a nice, lovely, long post with about seven links (which don’t get there by themselves, but require the blogger, which would be me, to track them down and place them there) all set up and ready to go, and when I hit the save button, WordPress ate my post. (Did I mention that I [...]

Trumpets! Drum Roll! Viola! Ta-da!
It is DONE.
Check it out, stroll around, let me know if you see any errors. Feedback would be most welcome.
Here’s an interesting tidbit: It was on September 21, 2007, that I posted “It’s Official” with my decision to try to get a photography book out (this is the nice thing about [...]

Good morning, all. This is just a quick post because I have to take puppy to the vet for those ears (see previous post. I’m not putting in a link, just scroll down).
Things to do today (thinking out loud, well–on screen, anyway, I’m not really talking aloud, although some have said my lips move when [...]