Welcome to our new “Friday thing”. Today I’m joining in a “blog hop”, which is very much like a blog challenge because you get to meet awesome people and read some really great blogs. It’s different in that you don’t have to post everyday for 31 days. You only post on Friday using the alphabet as your guide. Today is letter E. (I missed A-D, but I can quickly catch you up!) But the really big difference is that you, my dear regular readers, also get to meet these awesome people and checkout these awesome blogs with me, because they will be listed on the bottom of each Fridays post. Click on a few – you never know where you may land or who you’ll meet that can change your life. With that thought in mind, let’s start hopping.
Catch Up:
A is for Actualization – 4 weeks ago illustrations for the book were complete – tweaked and ready for upload
B is for Brave – 3 weeks ago took an e-publishing course at Cape Cod Writer’s Center Conference, formatted book, and last week uploaded it to Amazon
C is for Couldn’t Wait – for the 12 hours it takes to publish – I had to do it 6 times and wait 12 hours to see it each time
D is for Done! – done and up for sale online!
Moving forward:
E is for Excited. I bet you can guess why I’m excited. Yes, it has to do with a goat named Ralph. My first piece of published anything became available on Amazon this week. The Trouble With Ralph, by Diana Lesire Brandmeyer, illustrated by yours truly, is the reason I chose to participate in this blog hop. You see, last January Diana and I met in The Ultimate Blog Challenge (the one where you post 31 times in 31 days). I was blogging about my new iPad and getting into digital painting. Diana found me and asked me to illustrate The Trouble With Ralph that had been taken out of print due to the fact that Amazon couldn’t locate the illustrator.
That’s not such an amazing story if I had been an illustrator, but I was not. I was playing with a new toy and illustrating any book, including one of my own, was never in my radar. I said I’d try, and Voila! Here we are today launching it on Amazon. How did this happen? Our good Lord brought us together in that challenge and completely changed my life through this project. So that is the reason I am excited today about hopping on the “blog hop”, but I’m even more excited because this time I can take you with me and give you the chance to venture into new territories.
The blogs below are from people from all walks of life, not just writers, so poke around in them. You never know what God has in store for you next. (He might show you in a blog, just like He showed me.)
And so, as another day goes by, until we reach Z sometime in January, we can have – to quote The Steve Laube Agency Blog – “Fun Fridays”, right here at Another Day Goes By, and…I have written.
Have fun!
LOVE the name of your blog and the purpose. And congrats on the book you illustrated:)
Thanks! I love it,too! That’s what keeps me going – it was the Segway to the book! Thanks for stopping and reading.
That is sooo cool, Linda! I love how you and Diana linked up! Congrats on your accomplishment, and welcome to the blog hop. 🙂
It’s up there with the ten coolest things that ever happened to me! Thanks for reading and commenting.
That is so exciting for you Linda! Isn’t it amazing how something we put little importance in can turn out to be something fantastically huge! Only God can orchestrate it.
Thank you J’nell. God is amazing!
Hi Linda! Glad you jumped on the blog hop! I know how excited you must be. Congratulations! I look forward to seeing more from you. Have a great weekend!
Oh, that is exciting! And welcome to the blog hop!!
It is amazing how God put us together. What Linda hasn’t said is how I was so sick when she started her part on the book and couldn’t help. She learned how to epub and everything that goes with it on her own. I am so thankful to her!
Diana