Friday, November 20, 2009

Conceptual Editing and Endorsements

Well it's November 20th and the publishing game continues. I've had the opportunity to Publicly speak about, sell, and give away my first book "Living and Dying Without Regret" which has made me all the more anxious to finish the publishing process for my second book "Climbing the End of Your Rope"

I was notified by my publisher on November 1st that the book was in the Conceptual Editing phase of the publishing process. This means that their going to make sure that the books story lines flow as I intended when I first began writing the book. The Publisher is going to send it to me in about 10 days, at which point I will have two weeks to review it and get it back into the hands of my publisher. Though this has been a fairly slow process in the past month, I did have the opportunity to obtain a couple endorsements for the book; both being from Christian Music artists that I looked up to when growing up. 1) Stephen Crumbacher from the band "Crumbacher"2) Mike Stand from "The Altar Boys".

Both of these men agreed to take a look at the manuscript, and after reading it, each of them emailed me an endorsement. What a great feeling to have two people that I'd always looked up to read my manuscript and place their name on it. And though in their eyes I probably appeared like another one of their adoring fans, they both treated me like I was just another man involved in the same thing that their involved with; glorifying God using gifts and talents.

All in all it's been a great month, and I look forward to reviewing my manuscript on December 1st. Until then, Have a blessed day, and a wonderful Thanksgiving.