Staying Positive During Publishing

Thanks for your question/comment last week, blogger! I try to stay positive during this process by remembering that I am working with a reliable partner, my illustrator, and by trusting my publisher. I think we have a great book to publish that children will read when they first start to read on their own. I am a little nervous about getting the word out though that we HAVE this great book! This blog and my website are attempts to bring awareness to The New Blue Tractor.

This is the first blog that I have ever done as well as the first website I have ever set up. If interested, my site can be found at http://www.readinmachines.com/. It is sure a learning process for a person who hasn't ever done it! I have been working through Google using their services for web design as well as the blog. I have a wonderful sister who is more active in both of these areas that has been, and continues to be, a great help! I have to say that working with the website has caused a little stress. I was trying to add a link to this blog and apparently hit something different and I thought I lost my home page! I was really in a panicked state! Fortunately, I had to leave to go to my son's baseball game so I logged out and the program just reset itself with my old home page. What a relief.

Richard, my illustrator, just sent me some coloring pages to put on the site so I will be adding those in today. Hopefully all will go well.

Stacey