So, you want to write an ebook ...

A Furniture Refinisher's Newsletter

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Greetings again to my readers!

This post continues the story started in the previous post. First let me recap briefly. I have spent almost two years writing an ebook about our former furniture refinishing and antiques business. That book A Furniture Refinisher's Newsletter is finally finished and available for purchase at Amazon and at Google Play Books. But even though I'm finished (finally!), it turns out I'm not; I find that the contented albeit often lonely experience of writing this ebook has left me with a lot to share and talk about! So let's talk shop! Who among you, my readers, is currently contemplating writing an ebook? If you are, then I hope this post provides some helpful sign-posts along your journey.

What I shared in the previous post is just one of the hurdles I encountered in my ebook-writing adventure. And that hurdle was more about the technical aspects of promoting your book on your own website than it was about creation. So ...  here's the rest of the story.

That darn viewport statement!

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Well, it's finally time to roll out the blog and social media announcements for my ebook A Furniture Refinisher's Newsletter just in time for the Christmas season, yay! When writing the book, I compared our 20-year ventures into the antiques and refinishing business to a journey ... and subsequently discovered the same comparison held for writing an ebook! Writing an ebook was a very looong and sometimes tedious process. It started in earnest in Jan 2016 during winter's rest. Back then I hoped the book would be finished before growing season; instead it was (finally!) finished in Dec of 2017, amidst all life's interruptions big and small. And I learned enough on the way to post about writing ebooks for some time to come!

So last week I submitted the final version of A Furniture Refinisher's Newsletter and created my Amazon Author's Page. This week I have "successfully" updated all my various websites - blog, Second Looks Furniture Refinishing, photography, portfolio, and writing sites - with information about the book and where to get it. Now is the time to craft posts for this blog and my Second Looks Facebook page to help me roll out The Big Announcement on Facebook, Twitter, and Linked-in (and also to do promotional pricing on my ebook at Amazon for this Christmas Season; and maybe even pay for some boosting on Facebook).

But waking up this Monday morning all I can think of is "that darn viewport"! In the process of updating my websites I had to reacquaint with HTML and CSS (mark-up languages for creating web pages). Hadn't touched any of it in so long! It started coming back to me, but not all at once, the trick being to leave yourself a breadcrumb trail, especially in how you originally conceived and designed your web pages. Like most things, I was hoping that putting news of the book on my webpages would be easy (you know, just stick it in).

But no, of course not.