Why “Finding My Voice”? (Part 2)

In the course of the next approximately two years, I began to allow myself to dream, and in a small scale, plan how to eventually have my own publishing company. It seems clear that traditional publishing is becoming a thing of the past and that self-publishing is more and more on the rise.

After doing some research I found that there are several good self-publishing companies online.

I have been a member of several writer critique groups in the past fourteen years or so. These have been both snail mail and email groups. I was also on the editing team for a prison ministry magazine called Loaves and Fishes, for about two years. I self-edited my first book, and that was a mistake, as most of the professionals will attest. When Finding My Voice went into its second edition, and prepared as an ebook, I had a seasoned editor friend, who has served in the military and know her way around words, give the document a thorough once over, and with excellent results. (Thank you, Miriam!)

So, I have figured out part of what I want to do when I grow up… something along the lines of publishing and writing. (Having two self-published books, and working on a novel is a reasonably good running start, I should say.)

Eventually, it dawned on me that I may as well start a small business doing what I love… wrestling words into position on a page. Someone generously assisted me in the process of becoming somewhat official and… lo and behold, the unforeseen… I needed a business name.

Well, there is the title of my first book… Finding My Voice. That would make an interesting business name, especially since it pretty much boils down what I think words and ink on a page are supposed to do… give an author a voice. And, there are some people, and some subjects, and some issues that seem to find better and easier expression on a page.

It also further makes sense since the book by that title and the one that followed soon after, Adoption: A Journey of Discovering God’s Grace, is more or less an attempt to bring to light a few of the issues that “we” foster and adopted kids know we experience and, lend some help (hopefully) in beginning to deal with it.

Which brings this to the point of considering, what is the point of this venture called Finding My Voice?