So the book is available now!

The book is out now on Amazon.com, on Kindle and Nook. I wound up doing this myself and it was quite a learning curve. The most difficult part was getting the formatting done. I would up using a template and still managed to mess that up the first time. It was a challenge and I learned how little I knew about microsoft word. My next step is to take a course to learn more about formatting my word documents. Meanwhile, I cut and paste new stuff into the old file and do a "save as."

Now it is time to learn marketing so I can sell this thing.

Finally a temporary fix

Just got the blog to let me write again. Temporary fix according to blogspot. We shall see.

Preparing for publication

Well, the book is out of editing and has been submitted to publisher. Now all I have to wait for is the finished cover. Right now I have declined the first design for my cover. It is too flat and dark. Requests for changes have been submitted.

Lyrics to Home By The Sea - my story inspiration

Home By The Sea
Genesis
Creeping up the blind side, shinning up the wall
stealing thru the dark of night
Climbing thru a window, stepping to the floor
checking to the left and the right
Picking up the pieces, putting them away
something doesn't feel quite right

Help me someone, let me out of here
then out of the dark was suddenly heard
welcome to the Home by the Sea

Coming out the woodwork, thru the open door
pushing from above and below
shadows without substance, in the shape of men
round and down and sideways they go
adrift without direction, eyes that hold despair
then as one they sign and they moan

Help us someone, let us out of here
living here so long undisturbed
dreaming of the time we were free
so many years ago
before the time when we first heard
welcome to the Home by the Sea

Sit down Sit down
as we relive out lives in what we tell you

Images of sorrow, pictures of delight
things that go to make up a life
endless days of summer longer nights of gloom
waiting for the morning light
scenes of unimportance like photos in a frame
things that go to make up a life

Help us someone, let us out of here
living here so long undisturbed
dreaming of the time we were free
so many years ago
before the time when we first heard
welcome to the Home by the Sea

Sit down Sit down
as we relive out lives in what we tell you
let us relive out lives in what we tell you

Sit down sit down
cos you won't get away
so with us you will stay
for the rest of your days. So sit down
As we relive out lives in what we tell you
Let us relive out lives in what we tell you