Two down, Seven to go

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     What do I mean by Two down, seven to go?
About a month ago, a friend of mine asked me what my goals were for this next year. It only took me about five seconds to share seven of them with her. Trust me, I have lot’s more, but was trying to be realistic. One of my goals was to complete a new website for Breath of Life Retreat House where I live and work. A second was self narrating my book to soon be available for download on the new and popular audible.com, i tunes and more.
     Since time permitted me to take on the two projects during the past several weeks, I split my time as best I could to tackle both of them during the month of January.

The first was the new Breath of Life Retreat House website
As I am sure you can imagine, designing and building a web site is a huge undertaking.
     I spent countless hours uploading, downloading, calling tech support, formatting, reformatting, navigation and sub navigation, calling tech support, page organization, calling tech support, photo and montage design and creation, calling tech support, etc. You get the idea. I really enjoyed the challenge and hope the site is more appealing and informative for our retreat guests.
     I am thankful to God for the persistent and compulsive drive I have to figure things out, even if I feel like crying and giving up at times.  If you know of or belong to a ministry, church, quilting group, writers group or scrapbooking group, I invite you to send them the link to the site.  I am also open to criticism, suggestions and opinions. Click the image below to visit the new site.
 

The second goal and project was to self narrate an audio version of my book
     During the time I was writing my book a couple of years ago, it was my desire to have the book also available in an audio version. Up until now, I couldn’t imagine how I could do it. That is until I recently learned about ACX, Audible Creation Exchange.
     Just like the new web site, narrating and recording my book proved to be another challenging project. I learned about microphones and ambient noise, what type of clothing to wear and not to wear when recording, where to record, pop filters, editing, re editing, formatting, uploading, etc.
     As of yesterday, I submitted all twenty-four chapters of my book, Meet Me In The Mountains, including the foreword, preface, epilogue and credits to audible.com.  They say it takes between two to four weeks to confirm the professional quality before it is available for purchase. I hate waiting, but I must. I will be patient.  So as of now, I can cross these goals off my list and continue on.  Number three? Stay tuned.

 

I am up to chapter 19 here on my blog

Feel free to listen to this chapter below.

I hope when my book is available on Audible,

you will order the completed version.

 

 

 

 

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